Remove unused ucs2_string. If we want a utf16 type, it should be named for that
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:wesnoth/wesnoth
Rebalanced three THoT scenarios.

Tweaked starting gold and income for various sides.  Updated changelog,
players changelog.
Fixed whitespace error in changelogs
Update changelogs and release notes
updated Greek translation
changelog update for Greek translation update
updated German translation
Add missing MP settings for reloaded games. Fixes #21808.

The problam was that mp::configure is not used for reloaded games and so
mp_game_settings will not be fully initialised. This leads to using default
values rather than values set using mp::configure screen or from reloaded game
config.

The optimal solution would be to either display mp::configure for reloaded games
or to populate mp_game_settings using reloaded game config. However, both
solutions require rather a lot of code restructing and are probably not suitable
for a feature freeze.
scons: Made out-of-tree builds with -Y option work
fix password box documetation

Signed-off-by: aquileia <sk.aquileia@gmail.com>
Extend .gitignore for VC project files

This commit adapts .gitignore to the new MSVC compilation
recommandations on the wiki.

Signed-off-by: aquileia <sk.aquileia@gmail.com>
Improve UTF-8 handling

For manipulation of UTF-8 encoded strings (insert, delete, truncate, and
size), usually conversion to wstring and back was necessary. This has
two disadvantages:
* the size of wstring is implementation defined
* the
double conversion is slow

The purpose of this patch is to add functions
to handle these tasks by a layer handling the different indexing between
codepoints and characters.

This commit applies these functions in
several places to replace the old implementations.

The byte_size_from_utf8_first() implementation will be replaced in a
separate commit as it relies on the count_leading_ones function by 8680.

Signed-off-by: aquileia <sk.aquileia@gmail.com>
Sort players changelog categories by alphabetical order
Fix a wrongly passed parameter in text_box.cpp
move UTF-8 functions to a separate namespace
fix signature and test for UTF-8 functions

On the advise of 8680, the unicode string was replaced by the hex
transcription of the corresponding codepoints (which he kindly
provided).
This might help to pass the overzealous encoding check of clang.

This commit also fixes a discrepancy between the signature of u8index in
declaration and definition.
Merge pull request #126 from aquileia/utf8

Improve UTF-8 handling
Get rid of utils::wide_string

utils::wide_string was a std::vector<wchar_t>
On most unix systems, this is 32 bits wide, and therefore a UCS-4 encoding.
On windows however, wchar_t is 16 bits wide, and the naive approach results
in UCS-2, which can only represent the Basic Multilingual Plane.

Most functions that used wide_string have been moved over to ucs4_string.
The Win32 API has been moved over to a specially created utf16_string instead.

Specialty tolower #ifdefs have been removed, as the towlower function has
been available since OS X 10.3, OpenBSD 3.7 and probably ancient versions of
all other BSDs too. The only issue is that on windows, the function cannot
be applied to characters outside the BMP.
Prevent some possible buffer overflows