Text troubles

[al Iskandari]

So far I can tell, there are following text troubles with the mod:

1) The Muscovite capital should really be Moskva (Moscow, Moskau, Moscou etc), not Pavlovo, of course.
2) The names of the great people are sometimes misspelt. That is:
"Abd Allah Ibn Sena" should be "Abd Allah Ibn Sina"
"Gisbertus Voetis" should be "Gisbertus Voetius"
"St. Thomas Beckett" should be "St. Thomas Becket"
"Uriel Da Costa" should be "Uriel da Costa"
"Ibn Al Hatham" should be "Ibn al-Haytham"
"Jan Van Eyck" should be "Jan van Eyck"
(GERMAN) "Naum von Preslav" should be "Naum von Preslaw"
"Abu Ibn Tufail" should be "Ibn Tufail" or "Abu Bakr ibn Tufail", but the first is preferable. (To tell the truth, "Abu" is almost never a name, but a part of a name meaning "Father of". One can't be called simply Abu.)
"Miguel De Cervantes" should be "Miguel de Cervantes"
"Gustave Vigeland" should be "Gustav Vigeland" (Though I doubt a 20th century Norwegian sculptor should be present in this mod)
"Jacobo Tintoretto" should be "Tintoretto" or "Jacopo Tintoretto", but the first is preferable.
"Michaelangelo" should be "Michelangelo"
"Zaman Al Hamadhani" should be "Zaman al-Hamadhani"
"Abu Ibn Guarsiya" should be "Ibn Gharsiya" or Abu Amir Ibn Gharsiya", but the first is preferable.
"Tiziano Vercelli" should be "Tiziano Vecelli" or "Titian"
"Francisco Zubaran" should be "Francisco Zurbaran"
"Vasily Tediakovsky" should be "Vasily Trediakovsky"
"Ibn Al Kharizmi" should be "Ibn al-Kharizmi" or, preferably, "Ibn al-Khwarizmi"
"Abu Al Qasim" should be "Abu al-Qasim" or, preferably, "Abu'l-Qasim"
"Jose De Acosta" should be "Jose de Acosta"
"Leonardo Da Vinci" should be "Leonardo da Vinci"
IN THE RUSSIAN FIELD Ivan Shuvalov is mistakenly called "Leonardo da Vinci"
"Abu Al Biruni" should be "Al-Biruni" or "Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni", but the first is preferable
"Garcia De Orta" should be "Garcia de Orta"
"Qazi Zedah" should be "Qazi Zadeh" or preferably "Qazi Zadeh al-Rumi"
"Antoine Levoisier" should be "Antoine Lavoisier"
"Ibrahim Al Zarqali" should be "Ibrahim al-Zarqali"
"Gregor Tsamblak" should be "Gregory Tsamblak"
"Blasco De Garay" should be "Blasco de Garay"
"Filippo Brunnelleschi" should be "Filippo Brunelleschi"
"Michael Sedziwj" should be either "Michal Sedziwoj" or "Michael Sendivogius"
"Oktay Sananoglu" should be "Oktay Sinanoglu"
"Johan De Witt" should be "Johan de Witt"
"Sergei Stroganoff" should preferably be "Sergei Stroganov"
"Bertrand De La Broquire" should be "Bertrandon de la Broquiere"
"Hierocles of Athens" should be "Hierocles of Alexandria"
"Ahmad Ibn Fadlan" should be "Ahmad ibn Fadlan"
"Mohammed Ibn Battuta" should be "Mohammed ibn Battuta" or preferably "Ibn Battuta"
"Fernando De Soto" should be "Fernando de Soto"
"Leif Erickson" should be "Leif Ericson" or preferably "Leifr Eiriksson"
"Afanasij Nikitin" should be "Afanasy Nikitin" (at least in the NON-GERMAN versions)
"Jacob Fugger" should be "Jakob Fugger"
"Christobal Colon" should be "Cristobal Colon"
"Vasco Da Gama" should be "Vasco da Gama"
"Antonie Van Dieman" should be "Antonie van Diemen"
"Samuel De Champlain" should be "Samuel de Champlain"
"Ahmad Ibn Rustah" should be "Ahmad ibn Rustah" or preferably "Ibn Rustah"
"Ponce De Leon" should be "Juan Ponce de Leon"
"Bartholomew Diaz" should preferably be "Bartholomeu Diaz"
"Grigorij Stroganoff" should be "Grigory Stroganov" (at least in the NON-GERMAN versions)
"Maurice De Sully" should be "Maurice de Sully"
"Jabir Ibn Hayyam" should be "Jabir ibn Hayyan"
"Qasim Ibn Firnas" should be either "Abu'l-Qasim ibn Firnas" or "Abbas ibn Firnas"
"Feliz De Azara" should be "Felix de Azara"
"Stanislav Staszic" should be "Stanislaw Staszic"
"Postniak Yakovlev" should be "Postnik Yakovlev"
"Johan Von Hildebrandt" should be "Johann von Hildebrandt"
"Teken Dereci" - not even know who he was... if you meant Tekin Dereli, he lived far later and should not be in the game
"Nicomedus Tessin" should be "Nicodemus Tessin"
"Marquis De Vauban" should be "Marquis de Vauban"
"Taqi Al Din" should be "Taqi al-Din"
"Galleazo Allessi" should be "Galeazzo Alessi"
"Diogo Da Boitaca" should be "Diogo de Boitaca"
"Erwin Von Steinbach" should be "Erwin von Steinbach"
"Khalid Ibn Al Walid" should be "Khalid ibn al-Walid"
"Tarik Ibn Zihad" should be "Tariq ibn Ziyad"
"Eugene Von Savoyen" should be either "Eugen von Savoyen" or "Eugene of Savoy"
"Orhan Ghazi" should be "Orhan Gazi"
"Michiel De Ruyter" should be "Michiel de Ruyter"
"Amir Ibn Al As" should be "Amr ibn al-As"
"Yusuf Ibn Tashfin" should be "Yusuf ibn Tashfin"
"Gonzalo De Cordoba" should be "Gonzalo de Cordoba"
"Gebhard Von Blucher" should be "Gebhard von Bluecher" or preferably "Gebhard von Blücher"
"Albrecht Von Wallenstein" should be "Albrecht von Wallenstein"
"Jan Breydal" should be "Jan Breydel"
"John Kinnamos" should be either "Joannes Kinnamos" or "John Cinnamus"
"Chevalier D'eon" should be "Chevalier d'Eon"
"Hassan Ibn Sabah" should be "Hassan-i Sabbah" (BESIDES, IN THE RUSSIAN FIELD HE IS MISTAKENLY CALLED "Chevalier D'eon")
"Ivanko of Preslav" not sure whether he existed
"Ahmad Al Tifashi" should be "Ahmad al-Tifashi"
"Torquemada" better should be given a first name
"Sinbaldo Fieschi" should be "Sinibaldo Fieschi"
"Pero Da Covilha" should be "Pero da Covilha"
"Hayreddin" maybe "Hayreddin Barbarossa"?
"Pieter De Connick" should be "Pieter De Coninck"
"Theodosius of Nicea" - I don't know whether the name is correct
"Rashid Ad Din Sinan" should be "Rashid ad-Din Sinan"
"Enrico De Candia" should be "Enrico de Candia"
"Simon Caroche" maybe "Simon Caboche"? (BESIDES, IN THE RUSSIAN FIELD HE IS MISTAKENLY CALLED "Enrico De Candia")
"Ibrahim Aya" - not sure about this name
"Alonso De Contreras" should be "Alonso de Contreras"
"Ivan Sushanin" should be "Ivan Susanin"
"Zrinya Miklos" should be "Zrinyi Miklos"
"Giovanni Guistiani" should be "Giovanni Guistiniani"
"George Von Frundsberg" should be "Georg von Frundsberg"
"St. Kiril" should be "St. Cyril the Philosopher"
"Anrei Rublev" should be "Anrei Rublev" (but he already was mentioned in the beginning of the list)
"St. Kliment" should be "St. Clement" (but he already was mentioned in the beginning of the list as "Clement of Ohrid")
Besides, I really doubt Louis Pasteur, Michael Faraday, Andrey Damyanov, Mehmet Asif Ersoy (who really is "Akif", not "Asif"), Kolyu Ficheto, Imre Steindl, Sven Hedin and, of course, Aydin Dogan, Ivar Giaver and Giacomo Leone (who are still alive!) should at all be present, as they lived a bit later
I am also not sure that rulers like Philip the Good of Burgundy and Ivan Asen should appear as great persons
3) To be continued. But in the Muscovite preface "the shadow of the Mongol Golden" must read "the shadow of the Mongol Golden Horde".

 

[AbsintheRed]

1.
We are in great need for a russian civver in RFCE, who is willing to update the Musconvian and Kievan city name maps.
I guess you are Russian, do you have some time to help in them?

2.
Thanks, unfortunately the great person lists are very inaccurate - even if we had a couple small improvements during the last year
The good news is, we already started compelling new, civ-specific lists
It would be more than welcomed if you could help in them...
Here is the thread

3.
It's already that way in the 1.01 version

+1
Btw, none of the modders can speak or even read Russian, so we can't really keep up with the Russian texts.
It's a remaining thing from the early versions of the mod - AFAIK at that time there was strong connection to the russian civfanatic site, and there were updates reasonably often
ATM it's more of a bargain as an advantage, because the texts are very outdated, thus can't be used even by the Russians.
Also somehow using a russian text coding in CivIV prevents the use of the unique characters of the ASCII coding - such as áéőüߣ
IMO the city name maps would be much better with those characters. Norse, German, Polish, Hungarian, etc - would greatly add to the flavour of the mod

 

[alpav]

I can somewhat read Russian and very roughly understand it but that's about all I can help with.

 

[al Iskandari]

Yes, I am Russian. Of course, I will gladly help you with the text part, if you like. Definitely, city names need much correction. Besides, it it possible to have a dynamic naming system depending on when the city is found. Say, names Sankt-Petersburg or Yekaterinoslav look somewhat strange in the early period. But later in the game they are alright.

I can also think of some East European Wonders, if you like.

 

[AbsintheRed]

Yes, I am Russian. Of course, I will gladly help you with the text part, if you like. Definitely, city names need much correction. Besides, it it possible to have a dynamic naming system depending on when the city is found. Say, names Sankt-Petersburg or Yekaterinoslav look somewhat strange in the early period. But later in the game they are alright.

I can also think of some East European Wonders, if you like.

Sounds great!
Could you look into the city name maps as well?
It's rather easy with Caliom's latest WB tools
Go into World Builder, select the signs option in the top left
And you can switch to city name mode there, selecting the civ by selecting the leader
You have to save the map in the World Builder after you finished, and you will get a "yoursavename".py file in the folder where you saved it
That's what I need to merge into the mod, so upload it here

On the other hand, unfortunately there is no dynamic naming system for city names
So we can live with Sankt-Petersburg and other modern cities if the human choose the found them early
The AI tends to found those fairly late

 

[al Iskandari]

Okay. I am a newcomer and don't have many ideas of where to find what. Where can I find the city name map and Caliom's tools?

 

[AbsintheRed]

Okay. I am a newcomer and don't have many ideas of where to find what. Where can I find the city name map and Caliom's tools?

Inside the game, it's incorporated in the current version of RFCE
You just have to go into WorldBuilder mode

 

[AbsintheRed]

@al Iskandari:
Do you still plan to work on the russian names, and the russian city name maps?