Am 06.03.2009 23:38, Renaud MICHEL: > 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.
This can be avoided easily by proprocessing: Take a polygon of english-speaking countries or regions and copy values from name to name:en. Regards, Claudius _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
