Hello Dirk!

Today (Thursday, October 16, 2008) at 10:22 you typed:

> I will answer the German language related stuff.

>> Cancel & Apply buttons are in english, OK is same in german ;-)

> Where exactly? Either translation is missing or it is not marked for
> translation.

In all dialog windows, e.g. Preferences, Search, Download...
There is probably some general QT switch for that.

>> I'm slightly afraid that
>> translating tags may lead to a "babel syndrom" (all parties have a perfectly
>> working symbol set, but none are compatible)

> Yes, that is true. But the translations are carefully designed to 
> represent actual mapping as well as map features and english meaning 
> (which sometimes conflict a lot). The set is the same as used for JOSM,
> which is much larger BTW. The merkaartor subset was easy compared to this.

> We already had that discussion. OFF as default is only acceptable for
> long-time mappers and people who speak English fluently. This may be the
> majority of people here on mailinglist or writing bug-reports, but surely
> not the majority of people using OSM.

I admit I havn't used JOSM for a while. Does it translate tags now by
default? If so, I think the discussion is obsolete, since the decision has
been taken elsewhere.

--
Best regards,
   Boris


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