[Freeciv-Dev] Re: new natural names patch (PR#1127)

["Erik Sigra" <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "Gregory Berkolaiko" <gberkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Erik Sigra" <sigra@xxxxxxx>; "freeciv development list" 
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Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 7:26 PM
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: new natural names patch (PR#1127)


> --- Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > > + * This is controlled through the nation's ruleset like this:
> > > + *   cities = "Washington (ocrean, river, swamp)", "New York
> > (!mountains)"
> > 
> > "ocrean"?
> > 
> > "What is "!mountains" supposed to mean? Is it a C-style negation? If
> > so, it is only intuitive to C programmers and not to anyone else.
> > Normal people consider the exclamation sign to increase the meaning of
> > something, not negate it. Use another notation like for example "not
> > mountains". I would use the proper negation sign, ¬, which is in at
> > least latin1.
> 
> can't find it on my keyboard.
> maybe just "-" (minus) then?
> negation, kind of universal...

It is on normal keyboard layouts, at least on the swedish. Something with 
AltGr-+ or AltGr-Shift-+ (or something else near +). I am not at home so I 
can't test it right now. If you can't find it, use Kcharselect or whatever it's 
called in your desktop environment.