[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Fixed polish.ruleset

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 May 2001, thue@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Monday 28 May 2001 22:16, iw0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Sorry for bad english;
>>           Fixed Ruleset for Polish Ruleset (by Peter Skrodzewicz)
>>
>> Type: non-diff, just place polish.ruleset over older version.
>>
>> Fixed: Polish native letter "ó" caused city names not shown
>> (eg. "Kraków" shown as ""), when building second and up city
>> (Windows version, maybe UNIX too...). All "ó" changed to
>> "o". Added: One city name, new kings (historical).
> 
> But I want to use those characters!  This is also a problem on my
> system is LANG is C. The solution is to set LANG to something else,
> fx en_US. Could we just require that of the users?
> 
> Would it work to just check if LANG is C on startup and then if it
> is replace it with en_US? Would that work? (unix gurus answer here.)
> If nothing else we can print out a warning asking the user to change
> it.

Freeciv is broken because it assumes that all the world uses ISO
9959-1.  You will never be able to fix these problems in all cases
unless you make Freeciv smarter, so that it no longer makes that
assumption.

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