On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:53:57PM +0200, Ben Laenen wrote:
> So, in short: I'm not sure a "language" tag would work here. The
> languages should be known from the political entity it's located in,
> and since the places in areas with more than one official language are
> tagged with name:nl, name:fr etc, that's more than enough already, and
> a language tag gives unnecessary information. And it's especially a bad
> idea if it defines a certain order of importance.
But how does the system know which is the "official" language for that
region? As far as I know, there's no function yet, so a language-tag would
be useful (and could for example be applied to the administrative boundary
as to save redundant information).
greetings,
Stephan
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