A request for the EB 2 mod team

[vartan]

We will probably have the option for units again but for cities it doesn't make much sense, most of them do not have alternate, more recognisable, "english" names, by which I assume you mean their Latin names.

We are including a script that changes the name of settlements depending on who conquers them, so if Kart Hadast, Syrakousai and Arse were taken by the Romans they would become Carthage, Syracuse and Saguntum.

Does the RTW engine support unicode? If so, it is a pity that the Armenians did not have unicode native names. As for the EB II proposed script, do you have an ancient Armenian map or do you need one? (for the town names, needless to say) Likewise, I hope M2TW has unicode support (as the RTW version is a past and lost cause). For names not found on any maps of yours (if you have any) or those of mine, I'd recommend sticking with native names (if unicode-ready, I'd recommend transliterating into Armenian, easy as cake considering the language and alphabet; make sure you get an Eastern Armenian transliterator as that is nearer to Classical Armenian).

[Cute Wolf]

I Wonder when Pritannoi conquers Arse, what name could be given? A**?

nice things! that way we could roleplay even in deeper sense!!!

[Tellos Athenaios]

Does the RTW engine support unicode? If so, it is a pity that the Armenians did not have unicode native names. As for the EB II proposed script, do you have an ancient Armenian map or do you need one? (for the town names, needless to say) Likewise, I hope M2TW has unicode support (as the RTW version is a past and lost cause). For names not found on any maps of yours (if you have any) or those of mine, I'd recommend sticking with native names (if unicode-ready, I'd recommend transliterating into Armenian, easy as cake considering the language and alphabet; make sure you get an Eastern Armenian transliterator as that is nearer to Classical Armenian).

For both engines the characters they support depend on the fonts they use, and by default it uses a UTF-16LE scheme without surrogate pairs. But we will not be using the Armenian alphabet I think: we've had some debate on the internal forums as to what characters we should support and there seems to some consensus for keeping the list simple as there will always be two points:
(1) Are the people who read the descriptions actually able to decipher those symbols anyway?
(2) There always will be the issue: why that alphabet and not this one? Can I have my favourite script or script-of-the-day, too?

Instead we'll probably favour an approach that sticks to the Latin alphabet. This would apply to the mod itself, for companion material we may decide otherwise.

[vartan]

Instead we'll probably favour an approach that sticks to the Latin alphabet. This would apply to the mod itself, for companion material we may decide otherwise.

In that case I look forward to reading more Armenian text in the Latin alphabet assuming you find the proper town names.

Do you mean using the armenian alphabet? From what I understand it was invented hundreds of years after EBs timeframe and so it wouldn't make sense to include it (on top of what Tellos has already said).

Armenian*. Not an issue, just thought it might have been part of the to-do list for the dev team, to have bells and whistles like that.