[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9660) bug in shared.c:607

["David Nielsen" <dnielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9660 >

I figured that was a general problem when I tried to fix a problem that
disallowed me from using capital Æ, Ø and Å in city names, when the none
cap versions worked fine. I tinkered with the idea of moving all it to
UFT8 or something similar with a mega patch to shape up my C skills.. I
found some conversion code so it should be rather simple, but none the
less a huge job, and I'm not sure of the impact on clients outside of
gtk2.

regards
David 'Lovechild' Nielsen

On tir, 2004-08-10 at 21:46 -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9660 >
> 
> This is a problem.
> 
> MAX_LEN_NAME limits "names" to 32 "characters".
> 
> However this is a problem because neither "name" nor "character" is well
> defined.  The limitation applies to translated names as well as
> untranslated.  And the restriction isn't really on characters, it's on
> bytes - which changes depending on the charset in use.
> 
> Raimar's proposed solution to the second problem was to use UTF-16. 
> However there is still the problem of translations.  Do you want to add
> /* TRANS: Only 32 characters long */ in front of every name?
> 
> Otherwise we need to remove this limit.  It can still apply to the ascii
> names but not to the translated ones.
> 
> jason
> 
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David Nielsen <dnielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>