[Kstars-devel] Cities.dat corrections

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 06:09:14 schrieb Akarsh Simha:
> > > > Argh, you are both right, english spelling should be here.
> > > >
> > > > Mu"nchen and Ko"ln should be "Munich" and "Cologne", but what about
> > > > german cities with umlauts (ÜÄÖ)?
> > > >
> > > > Found these german cities in Cities.dat:
> > > >
> > > > Düsseldorf,Gütersloh,Lübeck,Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle,Mülheim,Münster,N
> > > >ürnb er g, Osnabrück,Saarbrücken,Würzburg.
> > > >
> > > > Markranstät,Meiän,Mengersgereuth-Hämern,Mieäste
> > > >
> > > > Gönsdorf,Göttingen,Mönchengladbach
> > > >
> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org spells all of them - if known - with Umlauts,
> > > > just with one exception: Nürnberg is spelled Nuremberg.
> > > >
> > > > So what is the reference spelling? http://en.wikipedia.org?
> 
> Shouldn't we be adding the umlauts to cities which have no English
> names, so as to spell them correctly nevertheless?
> 
I have done that for the german names, only Cologne, Munich and Nuremberg are 
translated, all other cities have the correct german spelling.

What about these strange locations I could not identify ("Furth (Mfr)" and "H. 
List"?

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Burkhard Lück