[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:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14721 >
> 
> This version of the patch is complete: it provides the functionality for 
> city aliases, aliases for foreign cities, automatic renaming of taken 
> cities, and a small selection of example aliases.
> 
 >...

I hope that it's committed soon!

> +The canonical name usually itself appears in the city list of some nation (as
> +for "York" in the example above), however, that is not required. You should
> +usually select as the canonical name the modern name as used by the modern
> +sovereign nation in which it is located. When listing 'foreign' aliases, you
> +should not usually bother listing aliases that are trivially different, such 
> as
> +resulting from the additional or removal of an accent.
> +
OK, what about all the Greek, Illyrian, Roman, and Thracian names I've
collected where there is no modern city?

Usually the "Canonical" name would be the one used in the ecclesiastical
canon writings (that is: Church Latin).

Anyway, as soon as it's ready, I'll work on some nations.
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William Allen Simpson
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