Re: [Fgs-bs] Welcome and feature list

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Desired Username wrote:
> > > > Well, whose fault is it if those English speakers
> > > > don't have proper 
> > > > international font support?
> > >
> > > This is a system thing, right?  So if we did the
> > Right
> > > Thing, it wouldn't work?
>>
> > What do you mean by a "system thing?"
>
> I mean no matter we did, they'd still have to have the
> right fonts installed and so on to be able to handle
> people's "real" names.  

Oh, yes. I would prefer to ask people to install fonts than to ask 
others to change their names. However, this may not be practical. The 
player struct has a field for "name" (which is not the same as 
"fullname" and not the same as "login") perhaps we could use this as a 
Unicode alias (if it's not being used for something else already), and 
clients could choose whether to display the Unicode or ASCII name.

> OK, good.  Just checking, some people appear sane
> until you see how they program...

We wouldn't be having this discussion if it were in Java. Or even C++. 
Just saying.