Greetings! Several Slavic languages have rather formal rules about line breaks. We in Czechia have a few contributors who take the time to add nonbreakable spaces to names that "need" them. Needless to say, the current situation is rather inconsistent, with nonbreakable spaces occurring in the data but nowhere near being reliable. The local talk is also divided on the topic of whether nonbreakable spaces should be encouraged or removed.
We know that at least some renderers (including osm.org) actually make use of the nonbreakable spaces. Nominatim does Unicode collation, handling nonbreakable spaces well. Overpass does not and its suspicious behaviour was what alerted us to the problem in the first place. Both having and not having nonbreakable spaces has its pros and cons. The current state of uncertainty is the worst of both worlds. In an attempt to find a resolution and prevent an edit war, we reached out to the DWG, which did not solve the dispute. We now ask for opinions here. Thank you in advance, Matej Lieskovský PS: The rules are formal enough that there exists a 1997 program "Vlna" ("Tilde"), that can add nonbreakable spaces to TeX source files and is commonly used for important documents. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging