[Freeciv-Dev] Re: More nations + i18n nation names patch

[Jerzy Klek <qpkjeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

> > So, as I understand, leaders and cities in national languages,
> > only nation names is English? Good, let it be like this!
> 
> If i18n is not used, I think it makes more sense to use national names
> for all three.  Among Freeciv users, those with English as their mother
> tongue are a minority.  So Anglicised names probably won't make
> much more sense to most users than the names used in the country
> itself.

They will, unless you know Chinese, Aztec and other names in
native laguages. Anyway, good argument for i18n, because
personally, I don't want to have choice of: English, Deutch,
Francais, Hellenoi, Magyar, Russkiye and so on. (Excuse any
typing mistakes).
So, internationalization of nation names is a minimum. Leaders
and cities should follow, though this will be more difficult
as not all of them will have national versions.

To have something to begin, a patch with nation names marked
included.

/Jerzy

> > Nation names should probably be i18n marked similarily to
> > unit names... This should be mentioned at the beginning of
> > the ruleset file.
> 
> If i18n is applied, then I think it should be applied to all three.
>  
> > (Of course, some common sense should be used as well, because
> > more people know Cheops than Chufu, which is the same guy.
> > I could even give some more drastic examples of egyptian
> > or babylonian names - I'd have to look into books. Persian Cyrus
> > is now transliterated as Kurusz and so on...)
> > 
> > /Jerzy
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