On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> name:pa=ਪੰਜਾਬੀ How to enter in Hindi or Punjabi? I tried copy paste using: http://www.google.co.in/transliterate/indic in Potlatch, but it does shows rectangles in place of characters, and nothing rendered. In JOSM, it showed correctly. That mean at present, rendering in Hindi is on possible on OSM. > They use the Chinese name in the simple "name" tag (ie: the default name). <snip> > name=हिंदी > So then it's the English people who need the special map! Agree. http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.2501&lon=120.1666&zoom=14&layers=B000FTTT is useless for me. That mean now is time to have a few layers on OSM, to show different languages, one may be English, other for Local language which at country level show things in national language (Hindi for India), and local languages at zoomed map (city and state level). > There may be a problem with some of the map renderings and Indic > scripts though. It took quite a lot of effort from the developers to > get chinese characters and arabic characters to show up correctly on > the Mapnik map. That should motivate Indian developers ;-) -- H.S.Rai _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
