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

[Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear diary, on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:57:09PM CET, I got a letter,
where Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx> told me, that...
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gregory Berkolaiko" <gberkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Erik Sigra" <sigra@xxxxxxx>; "freeciv development list" 
> <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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.
Please let's stop this and stay reasonable ;-). This is too weird and not
really needed. Thanks :).

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