Re: [Fgs-bs] Welcome and feature list

[Desired Username]

--- tps12 <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Hey, there you go.  That's in keeping with the freedom
theme, too.  People can be magnanimous and
international if they wish, otherwise they can be
Americans.  *rimshot*

I think it would be a good idea to remove cruft
wherever we find it.  "name", "fullname" and "login"
sound suspicious.  Errr...except now, under your
scheme, they all have different uses.  So NM.

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