Sini Ruohomaa writes:
> On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 20:45 +0100, Michael Bauer wrote:
>> A cheeky question this late in the process - I hadn't counted on it 
>> being this tight. I'm happy to use the Scots as the primary nation for 
>> gd but is there a way of making sure that the suggested place names for 
>> freeciv in  Gaelic are Gaelic, not english? Or would that mess up the Scots?
>> 
>> Is there a fix that we could realistically implement before Tuesday?

Nothing we can do before Tuesday as the code is frozen. As a compromise,
have you tried the Gaelic nation in 2.3? That has Gaelic place names,
but not limited to places currently in Scotland.

> How about everyone else, how would you feel about translateable city
> names? Also, is it a total pain code-wise or just a question of adding a
> few macro brackets around a few thousand strings in the rulesets?

Code-wise: somewhere in between; the code would need changing to know to
call localisation for city names, and I think there are some technical
issues with character encoding. Haven't got time now to say more, but
here is some previous discussion of the topic:

<http://gna.org/bugs/?14204>
<http://gna.org/bugs/?15402>
<http://forum.freeciv.org/viewtopic.php?t=5986>

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