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Change: Update for French town name "Beaujolais" #7654

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@nikolas nikolas commented Jul 13, 2019

Pointed out by MagicBuzz here:
https://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=85567

There's no town in France called Beaujolais, but the current
name for the capital of the Beaujolais province is Villefranche-sur-Saône.

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nikolas commented Jul 13, 2019

The commit checker fails when there are non-ASCII characters in the commit message. Is that really a problem though? What's wrong with using unicode in git commits? I have no problem changing my commit, just seems annoying and unnecessary.

Pointed out by MagicBuzz here:
    https://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=85567

There's no town in France called Beaujolais, but the current
name for the capital of the Beaujolais province is Villefranche-sur-Saone.
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LordAro commented Jul 14, 2019

I'm tempted to agree with the other posts in the forum thread - the original game had it that way, so it should stay that way (recent corrections to accents aside)

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Eddi-z commented Jul 14, 2019

IMHO we should create a method to hide the "legacy" townname generators (so they can only be used when loading old games) and supercede them with new ones

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nikolas commented Jul 15, 2019

There's a lot to be discussed here so I'll close this for now.

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planetmaker commented Jul 16, 2019

A fix to the old townname generators IMHO is not a bad thing as long as they only touch spelling. We did that before.

At the same time I think Eddi has a very fair point, and suggests the right approach. Along that approach my favourite procedure would be to ship some selected, curated townname NewGRFs which provide reasonably big amount of names alongside OpenTTD. This could possibly be solved similar to how base sets are handled during install.

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nielsmh commented Jul 16, 2019

A way for GRFs only providing townnames to be perma-loaded similar to static NewGRFs could perhaps also help usability. As in, if scanning detects a NewGRF that only supplies townnames, it doesn't get offered in the NewGRF configuration for a game, but instead just appears in the town name options.
I don't know if that's actually possible.

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It would not even need to be static. It would suffice to compile a list of townname-only NewGRFs and in the townname selection provide a list of townname lists they offer (a townname NewGRF can offer several set of townnames). Problem with my selection is that townname NewGRFs may (currently) have parameters which a user might want to set. Though I doubt that big damage is done when they simply all are set to 0 for this purpose.

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