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
Hi Tommy,
I am happy for this initiative. I did OpenStreetMapping of roads, rooftops,
health centres, swamps and sectional boundaries of Bo City, Sierra Leone
between 2012 and 2016. I also did some mapping of the road network in Kenema
City.
I hope you have a national mapping plan which I
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
Hi Tommy, thanks for the email. Excited about the project, especially as I
have done some OSM mapping in Sierra Leone with MSF (mapping waterpoints in
Freetown)
For future reference, if people are writing aboiut their microgrants
project, reference the microgrants programme in the email and use
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
