Re: [Freeciv-Dev] city_nn patch

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Massimo Campostrini wrote:
> David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Currently there are a few places (eg, the "choose a name for your 
> > new city" dialog, the city report, maybe others) where city names 
> > shouldn't be longer than... 15 (?) characters.  
> 
> I like long city names; I would rather increase the max., and truncate
> the city name where appropriate, e.g. in the city advisor.

Though I would tend to agree that the limit could be higher, though
there should still be some reasonable limit.

For reference, all of the current city names (excluding the patch)
are 14 chars or less, except for Clermont-Ferrand at 16 chars.

In the patch, names longer than 14 are:

15 Biltmore Forest
15 College Station
15 Correctionville
15 Fort Qu'Appelle
15 Mungar Junction
15 Paradise Valley
15 Pedrogao Grande
15 Penetanguishene
15 Presles-en-Brie
15 Umm Digulgulaya
15 Wisconsin Dells
15 Yeehaw Junction
16 Cranbery Portage
16 East Thermopolis
16 Kill Devil Hills
16 Moreton-in-Marsh
16 New Straitsville
16 North Middleboro
16 Robin Hood's Bay
16 Wappingers Falls
17 Blacklick Estates
17 Fuerstenfeldbruck
18 Angola on the Lake
18 Comodoro Rivadavia
21 Death Valley Junction

-- David

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

my @names = ();
foreach (<>) {
    my @these_names = m/(\"[^"]*\")/g;
    @names = (@names, @these_names);
}
foreach (@names) {
    $_ =~ s/\"//g;
}
@names = sort {length($a) <=> length($b) || $a cmp $b} @names;
foreach (@names) {
    print length($_), " ", $_, "\n";
}