On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Magnus Manske <[email protected]> wrote: > Multilanguage tags, as well as synonyms, could simply be implemented > as #REDIRECTs, maybe. [[Tag:Blume]] would redirect to [[Tag:Flower]], > so a search for "Blume" would know about "Flower" easily. However, the > system would then have to search for both Blume and Flower internally. > Also, that could be a problem with "false friends" (en:Gift=present > vs. de:Gift=poison). > Or force the user to select a language when entering the tag. This means though that we either need a pre-save transform to transform [[Tag:en/flower]] and [[Tag:de/Blume]] to their canonical [[Tag:flower]] and reject tags without language specified, or we need to have tags entered separately from the page text. But then run into the history problem again.
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