Complete.Org: Mailing Lists: Archives: freeciv-dev: October 2003:
[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#6568) Non-latin1 city names 		Home

[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#6568) Non-latin1 city names

[Top] [All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index] [Thread Index]
To: pawel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#6568) Non-latin1 city names
From: "Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:58:54 -0700
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[guest - Sun Oct 19 17:37:00 2003]:

> Freeciv (deliberately) fails to support non-ISO-8859-1 characters in
> city names (as restricted by get_sane_name().) Why's that? I'd really
> like to call my cities after the real-world cities of &#321;ód&#378;,
> &#321;om&#380;a, etc.

All of the existing data files are in latin1, and there is currently no
support for changing charsets.  Even running Freeciv in a UTF-8 locale
will fail unless you have the proper workaround patch (included in 1.14.1).

We'd like to change this in the future, but it will take some core
changes.  See PR#1824.

jason
[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]