Overriding the language.dll may be useful in some cases where you are making a data mod and also changing unit names, as you only need to include empires.dat.

However, this is useless when you want to change other things that are stored in language.dll, such as if you want to change the fonts or something. Then it's better to do renaming and stuff in language.dll.

Override language.dll for units:
Copy the the following entries from the unit you want to change and paste in patches:

_name_language: 
_name_length: 
_name: 

Set _name_language: 0
Also, _name_length: has to be one more than the actual length of the name, which you enter in

_name: 

Example:

civ_0_unit_0_name_language: 0
civ_0_unit_0_name_length: 11
civ_0_unit_0_name: West Point

This overrides the name of Academy for the gaia civ, and renames it West Point.
Notice "West Point" only has 10 characters, but you have to put 11 in name_length.
Avoid making names longer than 23 characters.

[This message has been edited by zapdotep (edited 06-11-2010 @ 08:12 PM).]