[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13664) On the romanization of Japanese names

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

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13664 >

Is the character set stored in the nation ruleset?
if it was, the client itself could select working city names:

e.g.
cities(encoding=iso-8859-1) =
  "Babylon", "Lagash", "Nippur", "Ur", "Kish",
  "Shuruppak", "Kisurra", "Cutha", "Adab", "Umma",
  "Akkad", "Eridu", "Larsa", "Borsippa", "Sippar",
  "Nineveh", "Ashur", "Calach", "Carcar", "Hamat",
  "Opis", "Cunaxa", "Arbela", "Nisibis", "Carrhae",
  "Seleucia", "Ctesiphon", "Sittace", "Orchoe", "Apamea"

Uhm, there is a problem with the idea, not all clients would use the
same charset, so it'd rather be more ugly, like

cities =
  (iso-8859-1="Babylon"), (iso-8859-1="Lagash"), ..

and then for names of cities in different languages ;-)


On 8/13/05, Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13664 >
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> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 06:18:42AM -0700, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
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> > In the end, I hardly think it is a "serious problem" for Japanese players
> > having to read romanized Japanese names. They are, no doubt, used to it.
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> I'd think this is the decision of a japanese ruleset editor.
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> Christian
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