Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Internationalization - city names

[Martin Christensen <factotum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "David" == David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

David> Martin Christensen wrote:
>> I have volunteered to do at least part of the Esperanto
>> translation, and unfortunately Latin 1 is not enough. I'll either
>> need Latin 3 or Unicode...

David> Huh, I thought Esperanto was supposed to be some sensible
David> language.  Are you telling me it requires some unusual
David> characeter set?

It is quite sensible in most respects, but when L.L. Zamenhof thought
up the character set he wasn't taking even that past day's typing
devices into consideration. Yeah, it's stupid in that way.

>> and let's face it: not making FreeCiv Unicode compliant serves no
>> purpose.

David> Thats easy to say, but making it Unicode compliant probably
David> requires someone(s) to do a lot of work to make it so.

No task is impossible for he who gets someone else to do it. :-)

Martin

-- 
Anyone who has realised the importance of Esperanto
is morally obligated to work for it.
    - Leo Tolstoi