The next step to more flexible naming options constellations can now be displayed in many languages, helped greatly by this Wikipedia page with a table listing lots of them. Note that this is not from the original Wikipedia, where this page has been deleted; apparently it was too useful. You can select the constellation-language in the form below the map, and zoom in to any constellation in the other select box, where the displayed names are automatically adapted to the language-selection, amended with the IAU 3-letter designation for convenience.
These are the relevant options in the configuration object, all renamed from previous versions to better represent the actual meaning. Different parameter names in older versions are transformed automatically to preserve backward compatibility.
{
constellations: {
names: true, // Show constellation names
namesType: "desig", // What kind of name to show (default 3 letter designations)
// Available options: (name) Official IAU name, (desig) 3-Letter-Designation, (lat) Latin, (en) English, (ar) Arabic,
//(cn) Chinese, (cz) Czech, (ee) Estonian, (fi) Finnish, (fr) French, (de) German, (gr) Greek, (il) Hebrew,
//(it) Italian, (jp) Japanese, (kr) Korean, (in) Marathi, (ir) Persian, (ru) Russian, (es) Spanish, (tr) Turkish
// Different fonts for brighter & darker constellations
nameStyle: { fill:"#cccc99", align: "center", baseline: "middle", opacity:0.8,
font: ["14px 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif",
"12px 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif",
"11px 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"]},
lines: true, // Show constellation lines
lineStyle: { stroke: "#cccccc", width: 1.5, opacity: 0.6 },
bounds: false, // Show constellation boundaries
boundStyle: { stroke: "#ccff00", width: 1, opacity: 0.8, dash: [2, 4] }
}}
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