[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New feature proposal: translated names for cities.

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:35:54PM -0400, Miguel Farah wrote:

> I toyed with the idea of each player seeing each city with the
> translated name all the time (i.e.: as the Spanish player, I'd always
> see the city "Londres" instead of "London", regardless of who owns it),
> but I think this might be overkill. Auto-renaming a conquest should be
> sufficient.

When people chat about the game and the cities they have, different names
may be a problem. Especially with chinese or russian names. :) Maybe the
english name should also be present?

Besides this, I like your idea much.

For big and well-known cities, this will look cute. But what with the
smaller ones? When you translate them, you may end up with the name of an
existing city of another nation. Nobody will recognise such names when
translated, well it might be difficult.

Maybe the translation should all be deliberate, so that the translators
decide which names to translate at all, maybe just the big ones? It will be
hard to find translations for the others anyway. I don't know a single US
city name with a proper german translation.


> [2] This might happen frequently when two nations share many cities. For
>     example, the spanish ruleset includes the cities of Gerona and
>     Lérida, which are the same as the cities of Girona and Lleida in the
>     catalan ruleset. If both nations are in a game, and the spanish
>     (which already have founded Lérida) conquer the enemy city of
>     Lleida, no renaming could take place.

So the citynames option should be aware of the translations? For example, if
citynames=2 Girona is forbidden to use for city founding when Gerona is in
use?

Christian

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