Re: [Rails-devel] UTF-8 characters for japanese city names in 1889 (was: Push request: Refactored network info (incl. keyboard shortcut and version for end-users))

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

On Monday, January 09, 2012 01:32:25 pm Frederick Weld wrote:
> Regarding the use case:
> I would really like the kanji to be displayed in the tooltips, as the
> background map's labels will be covered by upgrading tiles - and,
> thus, are not available any more.

I suggest making displaying locale city or other names a game option 
"displayLocaleNames" and provide a new attribute as localeName (or is 
localName the correct spelling?) inside map.xml.

This would then allow to add German city names to 1835 and localized version 
in 18EU. This could possibly extended to company names later.

I fear that the knowledge of kanji is not so widespread as you might assume 
;-). 
I have to admit that I got stuck after learning Hiraganas and Katakanas and a 
number of kanjis which could be easily counted using my own hands.

> 
> Regarding the realization:
> So I should use real UTF chars in the map.xml (instead of html
> escapes)? If yes, I could provide for that - but hopefully no one will
> edit the map.xml using an ansi editor...

I think there is at least some hope that no one will be given commit rights to 
the repo who starts editing those files with an ANSI editor :-)

Stefan