[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New nation: Croatians

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:14:24PM +0200, Gaute (B) Strokkenes wrote:
> Gerhard Killesreiter <killesreiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> * The locales of a given server and a given client may be different.
>   At best, this results in a confusing multilingual mix-match of
>   messages, at worst it results in totally garbled output if the
>   different locales use different coding systems.
> 
>   There are a number of possible fixes to this problem, including: 1)
>   Standardising on some common coding system, such as UTF-8, 2) Not
>   transmitting text over the wire (i.e. using message ids and
>   whathaveyougot) or 3) enabling the server to use different locales
>   for different connections.
> 
>   No. 1 is tricky because it's hard to shoe-horn every locale out
>   there into UTF-8, and doesn't solve the tower of Babel problem.
>   No. 2 is a not very pleasant to maintain.  Personally, I prefer
>   no. 3, which shouldn't be that tricky to implement.

Actually I like 2 best because otherwise you risk parsing text strings
in the client to extract info.

-Thue