RFC Europe: Extending/Fixing City Name Maps

[AbsintheRed]

Umm, no
Doesn't the river banks go as the river runs?

EDIT: Ohh actually I wanted to write left bank and right bank )
You are right, it's confusing this way, I will edit my last post

 

[georgeofaw]

Should the names be in local dialects
eg;
Genoa:English Genova:Italian Zena:Genoese
Ajaccio:English Ajaccio:Italian Aiacciu:Corsican
etc.
?

 

[merijn_v1]

Should the names be in local dialects
eg;
Genoa:English Genova:Italian Zena:Genoese
Ajaccio:English Ajaccio:Italian Aiacciu:Corsican
etc.
?

No. The should be in the language of the empire. So Genoa and Venice names are Italian, France and Burgundy are French, Arabia and Cordoba are Arabian etc.

 

[AbsintheRed]

• Click on the "Landmark" tool in WorldBuilder and add/delete/modify signs to your heart's content. I think you can't actually modify a Landmark, you may have to erase a current Landmark and make a new one. This will also erase resources below it, but this is ok. Keep in mind that cities can be built with only one square separating them (they can never be next to each other), so it is ok for a 2x2 grid of squares to all have the same name, but it should never be larger than that.
• In general, cities should be named in their native spelling. Latin-1 accents should be okay now. On my system I have no problem entering Latin-1 accents with alt escape codes http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html, saving as a World Builder Save and then re-opening, but you can also enter accents as html entites: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/latin1.html. This means you'll have to use the best "Westernization" of many Eastern or Slavic names.
• While still in WorldBuilder, save your map.
• Upload the map back here, along with a (brief) description of what you've done. I have a Python script which will steal the sign-names out of the file and put them back into the proper place in the mod.

Hey sedna!
Just ran into this thread.
Do you still have that script? It may be useful, papa1 is updating the russian and kievian maps AFAIK, and I'm working on the hungarian one

And do you have any idea, why the non-english characters won't show up correctly in the map?
It's probably something related to russian characters, but have no idea how to fix it...