non-alphabetical symbols in civilization names

[funxus]

I've created the poeple Engelsmännen and Fransmännen, which is what we call English and French in Swedish. This has caused a problem with the city list. "ä" doesn't seem to be a valid symbol in the names, i.e. the game works fine, except that it can't make the connection between civilization and citylist. Is there some way to go around this. I have 2.42.

 

[insurgent]

Couldn't you use 'ae', most people know that's the same as 'ä'.

BTW, I thought you Swedes used the 'æ' for that sound, just as we do in Denmark...?

 

[Thomassen]

I've never seen 'æ' being used in Swedish.
'Ä' isn't neccecarily the same as 'æ' neither.

 

[insurgent]

'Æ' ('æ' in capital) is a key on our Danish keyboards, and yes it is the same as 'ä'. I know that for sure. But ok, I just thought you used it too...

 

[funxus]

In Swedish we use å, ä and ö, in Danish you usae å(?),æ and ø

Nobody knows how to go around this problem? I might have to change the names to Angler and Franker instead, but that is not as good.

 

[Henrik]

Actually I've seen the danish ä used for the name Caesar (Cæsar) in some books.

 

[Mercator]

You used a Ä in the citylist title, and a ä in the rules.txt, right?
Don't use the capitalised version, but just use the lowercase character in the citylist title as well.

E.g. "Bäbylonians" in the rules.txt, in combination with "@BÄBYLONIANS" in the city.txt doesn't work... But "Bäbylonians" in the rules, and "@Bäbylonians" in the citylist works wonderfully.

I guess this is simply because the built-in functions that convert ASCII characters to their lower/uppercase equivalent, only work in the normal alphabetic range, i.e. from A to Z and a to z.
Civ2 tries to match the two different names by converting both to lower/uppercase... This doesn't work for the Ä and ä so it doesn't find a match.

 

[funxus]

Yes, it worked Thank you very much, Mercator!