[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9955) bug: accents in city names etc are "bad strings" on OSX / gtk2

["Benoit Hudson" <bh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9955 >

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 11:02:02AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> See PR#1824.  There's a patch in there that will probably help you.
> However I can't guarantee it since it sounds like Freeciv doesn't know
> what your local character encoding is.

Oh, indeed.  I'll try that patch before my next game.


> Can you tell us exactly what string is being passed to g_convert?  Vasco
> already has a hack
>
>      if (!strcmp(charset, "ANSI_X3.4-1968")
>       || !strcmp(charset, "ASCII")) {
>        charset = "ISO-8859-1";
>      }
>
> that is intended to detect the use of ascii (which is usually erronous)
> and just use latin1 instead.  But if your charset is not one of those
> two strings it will of course not catch it.

My charset is US-ASCII ; all my patch does is add that case to those
lines.

        -- Benoît