[crossfire] Using UTF-8 in maps

[Mark Wedel]

Raphaël Quinet wrote:
> Just a quick summary of what was discussed a few minutes ago on IRC, so
> that it's not forgotten:
> - the gtk v2 client is already using UTF-8 correctly;
> - gxclient and the old gtk v1 client are still using iso-8859-1 but
>   it should not be hard to convert them to UTF-8;
> - UTF-8 is pretty much the standard today and it will be increasingly
>   hard to justify using anything else.
> 
> Those who participated in that discussion were in favor of
> standardizing on UTF-8 (at least for maps, we didn't really discuss
> archetypes or anything else).  There were no objections against it.

  It all sounds good to me.

  What would be good to help out on this is basic directions in the editor as 
needed to embed the UTF8 characters.  Same for some of the more popular editors 
so users now how to enter them.

  And lastly, we probably need to update the documentation that UTF8 is the 
proper codes to use, and the maps updated.  For documentation, those hints on 
how to enter those characters would be useful.

  Saying to use UTF8 doesn't do me much good if I have no idea of the proper way 
to enter them.