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

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 20 July 2001 20:14, Thue wrote:
> 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

And the patch attached this time...

-Thue

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