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

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

Peter Schaefer wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13664 >
> 
> On 8/14/05, Jason Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> .... 
> 
>>All rulesets are UTF-8.  I don't see what purpose what you're suggesting
>>would have.  The client can use transliteration if it doesn't support
>>unicode but all good clients should use unicode.
> 
> Well yes, that makes sense, but I am still kind of curious how many
> clients/people running clients would be able not only to handle, but
> to correctly display Hiragana city names.

On my system I had to go out of the way to install Japanese fonts 
(needed for testing since I do checks with different $LANGs).  On second 
thought though these may have just been for the Kanji; Hiragana might 
have been included already.

-jason