[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14721) City Name Aliases

["William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14721 >

Benedict Adamson wrote:
> Which would be preferred? One large patch with all the features 
> (aliases, renaming and foreign names) or a sequence of patches?
> 
Sequence, is easier to verify, and incremental stepwise improvement is the
soul of good engineering.

> On further consideration, a 'foreign' label is not so good, because we 
> also require a canonical name for entries that have a 'foreign' label; 
> the format would be better if the syntax enforced this. That can be done 
> by using a character other than '=' to indicate aliases of foreign 
> cities, '*' for example (commonly used in historical linguistics for an 
> unattested word). Then, using your examples, we could have the following:
> 
> "Keijo (*Seoul)" ; in Japanese city list
> "Donggyeong (*Tokyo)" ; in the Korean city list
> "Miklagård (*Istanbul)' ; in the Viking city list
> 
Shouldn't that be
"*Keijo (Seoul)" ; in Japanese city list
"*Donggyeong (Tokyo)" ; in the Korean city list
"*Miklagård (Istanbul)' ; in the Viking city list

That is, the place being flagged is to avoid making the local name?

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