[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Upper ascii characters in city names etc.

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 19 July 2001 21:34, Thue wrote:
> As you know the gtk client can bug if the strings it displays
> contains upper ascii characters (those that change between charsets)
> and the locale is set to C.
>
> I would really like to keep using the national characters. But since
> nobody has presented a solution it seems the best option for the
> 1.12.0 release is to remove the special characters.
> I will probably try a bit more (I didn't look that deep, this is not
> something I know much about), but assume that this solution will be
> applied for the 1.12.0 release.
> I have attached a patch to do this by replacing them with
> approximations when the rulesets are loaded, ie fx "à" is replaced
> with "a". This means that is we find a way of displaying the
> characters we don't need to reintroduce them to the rulesets
> themselves, we just remove the little bit of code.
> People probably have some corrections to the character convertion
> itself. Fx, what is the correct approximation for "ç"?
>
> -Thue

A slightly updated patch with corrections by Christian Knoke 
<ChrisK@xxxxxxxx> and Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>.

-Thue