Package: merkaartor Version: 0.15.2-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n It would be nice if merkaartor could use $LANG to decide which language to draw names (and other strings) on the map. As an example:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <osm version='0.6' generator='Merkaartor'> <bound box='18.789139,98.985725,18.789139,98.985725' origin='http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6' /> <node id="178056220" lat="18.78913903" lon="98.98572463"> <tag k="is_in:continent" v="Asia"/> <tag k="is_in:country" v="Thailand"/> <tag k="is_in:district" v="Chiang Mai"/> <tag k="is_in:province" v="Chiang Mai"/> <tag k="name" v="เชียงใหม่"/> <tag k="name:en" v="Chiang Mai"/> <tag k="name:th" v="เชียงใหม่"/> <tag k="place" v="city"/> <tag k="population" v="140000"/> <tag k="source" v="Wikipedia"/> </node> </osm> This is a city I visited in Thailand when I went to the recent Thai MiniDebCamp. The English name is Chiang Mai and the Thai name I cannot read due to the script being different. It would be nice if merkaartor would render name:en for me and name:th for Thai users. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianThailand/MiniDebCamp2010 -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages merkaartor depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libexiv2-6 0.19-1 EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation li ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library ii libgdal1-1.6.0 1.6.3-3+b1 Geospatial Data Abstraction Librar ii libqt4-network 4:4.5.3-4 Qt 4 network module ii libqt4-svg 4:4.5.3-4 Qt 4 SVG module ii libqt4-webkit 4:4.5.3-4 Qt 4 WebKit module ii libqt4-xml 4:4.5.3-4 Qt 4 XML module ii libqtcore4 4:4.5.3-4 Qt 4 core module ii libqtgui4 4:4.5.3-4 Qt 4 GUI module ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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