> 2010/11/3 Stefan Keller <[email protected]>: > > 2. What about names in the local dialect (very important to me)? I'm > > thinkin about 'Barça' for Barcelona, Spain, or 'Züri' which is Swiss > > German for Zurich, Switzerland). How to tag those? => Something like > > 'ch' plus a subdomain? > > > You should differentiate between a "dialect" and a real language. > While für languages there is name:XX (language code), for dialects you > can use loc_name and alike.
No, this is _not_ the purpose of loc_name. In fact, loc_name/name/old_name/official_name... and language tags are completely orthogonal. Dialects should be treated exactly like languages (the distinction is artifical anyway from a linguistic point of view): use name:...,old_name:... together with the ISO 639-1/2 code (which, admittedly, don't exist for most dialects). You can probably use IETF language tags with regions, so for Züridütsch you would have: gsw-x-zueri (gsw=Swiss German, x-zueri=private subtag Züri) This probably works for Swiss German but in case of e.g. East Franconian (which doesn't have a language tag) you have to be careful to distinguish between Standard German as spoken in, say, Bayreuth, and East Franconian as spoken in Bayreuth. Thus you cannot simply use de-... for the latter, as it would mean the former. See these pages for details: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php http://www.langtag.net/ -- GRATIS! Movie-FLAT mit über 300 Videos. Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
