Le vendredi 06 mars 2009 à 22:54, Pieren a écrit : > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Pierre-André Jacquod > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > If someone wants to edit / create a map in Hebrew (or language X), then > > he would use first all name:he (or name:X) irrespective of the local > > language, then where it does not exist name=.. would be used. This > > would alow to have all existing names in language X displayed in > > language X, independently of the local language. > > I perfectly agree with the rule above. If name:xx does not exist, use > name (for local rendering). And it is for the same reason that when > name:xx=name, don't waste your time to enter twice the same thing.
But what if you want to handle multiple language fallback? Let's say for example you want a map primarily in english (name:en), if english is not available you fallback to french (name:en), if not available either you take the default name (name, wich may be in any language and using non-latin character set). Now for names whose main langaue is english, if you don't encode a name:en but you have a name:fr you'll end up choosing the french version while you would have prefered the english one. -- Renaud Michel _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
