[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12701) Polish cities Ascii bug and city selection bug

["Peter Schaefer" <peter.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12701 >

(Uhm, I don't whether to reply to this to bugs@ or freeciv-dev@ ..)

Yes, I already have a city called Bialystok.
The problem goes away when I rename Bialystok, but then the new city
will often be named Bialystok again.

It is also strange that Bialystok is suggested so often in row, not a
different name.

I don't understand why a name which does contain only standard latin
characters should cause this problem - maybe the conversion function
from latin back to unicode is missing.

Theres also an aestetic problem with getting a city name that you
rejected suggested again.
If you don't like a city name once, you probably don't like that it is
suggested again for every new city either.

 Maybe the server, instead of/in addition to going through the list
until it finds one name that is not used, maybe it should keep a
counter to the next name not suggested yet and start searching a new
name from there .. This would also be marginally more efficient. It
would not really solve the above problem, but would make a perfect
workaround.

On Apr 2, 2005 2:12 PM, Mateusz Stefek <mstefek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12701 >
> 
> > [peter.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx - Fri Apr 01 22:35:17 2005]:
> >
> > Client is rc1 win32
> > The situation is that I built a few polish cities, including
> > Bialystok. I try to build a new city, and I already switched check the
> > preference box where it says ask for city name, because I encountered
> > this problem before.
> >
> > Two or three bad things happen:
> > -the game tells me: You already have a city called Bialystok.
> >  this is the message for the automatically chosen name.
> >  however, the game is unable to choose another name but Bialystok
> > automatically, at least choosing a different name seems to have a
> > small chance only of happening.
> >
> > - the game says " Only ASCII or ruleset names are allowed for cities."
> >   It says this for the autoselected name (from the ruleset for polish?
> !)
> >
> > - finally the game does neither generate a random name, or popup a
> > blank city naming dialog, (as I tried to force by checking the "ask
> > for city name" box) which would have worked around the problem.
> >
> 
> I assume you use non-gtk version.
> 
> Here's what happens:
> The server suggest 'Białystok', but when
> it's converted from UTF8 to yuor encoding(probably ISO-8859-1 or 15)
> it is changed to 'Bialystok' and sent back to the server.
> 
> It works only once, then you see this error.
> You already have city called 'Bialystok', don't you?
> 
> That's ... a problem.
> --
> mateusz
> 
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