Hi
This is Solaiman Shaikh from Dhaka Bangladesh. President, YouthMappers
Dhaka College. I have been contributing on OSM since 2016 and also
connected field level mapping about last 3 years. From my experience and
point of view that it is not only the issue that NGOs are working in
Bangladesh.
Mkel,
On 29.11.19 05:19, Mikel Maron wrote:
> There’s no reason to hide this about a dispute in Bangladesh when that’s
> already in the open
I would have preferred to talk about the more abstract question of "how
do we deal with sitautions like this" rather than getting lost in the
particulars
There’s no reason to hide this about a dispute in Bangladesh when that’s
already in the open, and there’s definitely overlap between the two mailing
lists.
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-bd/2019-November/000151.html
My position is that it’s hard to understand why you’d want to
Summary of Frederik Ramm presentation> the DWG has been involved in a
discussion being had by the community in
a country where the official language uses non-latin characters.
> more than 98% of the population speak the official language as their native
> language
> Older people or people
I think the major problem is how do we move forward.
XML is basically a system of containers a beginning tag and an end tag.
The nice thing about it is you can add fields to the file and existing
programs will still work. They'll just ignore the new fields. They don't
have to understand or use
Hi,
I believe a little more information needed to be added here to point the
discussion to the right direction. The language usage a is not Latin script
and the Unicode block is completely ok. So there is no issue in writing
that language anywhere in internet and no additional special font is
XML never started from scratch based on old versions of SGML or any updated
version of SGML.
When it was created, Unicode was already there and its support in XML was
mandatary from the start, including the support for UTF-8 by default. And
It was based on the earlier work on XHTML which already
The way I would approach this professionally would be to define the
requirements first.
In this case we have a requirement to display the name in the language
of choice.
We also have a requirement to be compatible with existing software.
Pragmatically I would recommend changing the name
John,
On 28.11.19 01:40, John Whelan wrote:
> Is there any reason why name:en could not be used?
The country's official language requires a "non-standard" font to be
available which does not seem to be a given on all platforms. Like if
you set up a standard tile server and don't install extra
of the mentioned organisations but
only locally in an English speaking country, not internationally.
Cheers - Phil
From: John Whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2019 11:40 AM
To: Frederik Ramm
Cc: hot
Subject: Re: [HOT] Name tag in non-latin script
Is there any reason why name:en could not be used?
I'm not seeking to influence here but looking for enlightenment. In
Canada locally we are able to display the map in either English or
French certainly in OSMand. OSMand defaults to the name value if
name:fr is not available.
Thanks John
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