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#1 nfbeerse

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Posted 23 September 2003 - 05:02 PM

Hello,

On the maps the province of GibraltAr is written with an A. In the orderentry program, it is written with an E.

What is the correct notation?

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Posted 23 September 2003 - 06:00 PM

I believe "A" is the correct spelling

In this case in doesn't really matter as the programs only use the first five letters of a given province/city name (not counting the 'x' used to differentiate between cities and provinces) so the code is going to see "gibra" or "xgibra" regardless. The map was designed so that the first five letters of a province/city name are unique. This was a design concept from the days when we had to key in 100% of the turns ourselves - a shortcut for data entry.


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Posted 24 September 2003 - 01:28 AM

Thanks Russ,

I thought it should be an A, but the entry program wrote it with an E

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