[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7228) freeciv-client-gtk: City name problems (Unicode problem?)

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7228 >

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:06:28AM -0800, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> It's refusing to allow Århus as a city name, despite its being a name
> suggested by the game.  When I try to build the city, I get ``Jeu : on
> ne va pas construire une ville avec un nom aussi stupide.'' (Roughly,
> ``a city with such a stupid name cannot be built''!).  If I try to
> change it after construction, I get ``Århus n'est pas un nom valide''
> (``Århus is not a valid name'').  It's clearly not choking on the UTF8
> data completely, as it repeated the name back in the error message.
> Also, oddly, it was fine with ``København''!  
> 
> A little testing shows that it will accept ``århus,'' but it refuses to
> accept names where the first character is a capitalized non-ASCII char.
> 
> I simply spelled the name Aarhus, but now it's going to get stuck on
> Århus and keep suggesting it to me -- not being Danish I suspect I'm
> going to run out of good Danish names in a hurry... ;)
> 
> (FWIW, I had problems with being unable to use non-ASCII characters in
> king names, too -- ``Æþelred,'' for example, was rejected.)

> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8

The relavant functions are: common/shared.c:is_sane_name() and
common/shared.c:is_iso_latin1(). Basically is_iso_latin1 tests for the
unused range 127-161 (~...¡). I suspect that this function is called
with utf-8 data. The server doesn't use utf-8. But GTK2 does.

Vasco?

        Raimar

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