[Freeciv] Re: info on rules change: city names

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:34:54AM -0400, Miguel Farah wrote:
>  Neil Watson [14/08/2002 09:12] dijo/said:
> >On August 14, 2002 07:18 am, Raimar Falke wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:58:27AM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> >> > > > What about enforcing name rules?
> >> > >
> >> > > I like to have easy rules, the more rules the harder its to play th=
> >e
> >> > > game. When someone wants to name his cities 0x00 he should be able =
> >to
> >> > > do it.
> >> >
> >> > I wanted this because I hate guys who name their cities "1", "2", "3"=
> >,
> >> > ... or even "1", "1", "1" ... This is done to prevent other players
> >> > identify their cities in a reasonable way, I guess. It's fighting wit=
> >h
> >> > illegal means for me.
> >>
> >> What about a minimum name length of 3?
> 
> babylonian.ruleset: Ur
> viking.ruleset: +s and Os

Then I would suggest that we only names which aren't in the nation
city list more strictly. Extra checks could be:
 - min length of 3
 - no leading or trailing whitespace
 - only printable chars (this may even be more stringent by only
 allowing chars in the range ' '+1 .. 0x7f)

        Raimar

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