Am 07.12.2010 00:29, schrieb Kurt Roeckx:
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:00:57AM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
In an attempt to fix this I have asked the maintainer of
<http://keepright.ipax.at/> to add a data check. Where a choice of languages
exists for a name, then there should be one that corresponds to the main
'name' tag. In other words for the example above there was name=Scotland but
not any name:XX=Scotland. One should be added indicating the language of this
name, so that user interfaces can choose among the name:XX. Of course if an
object has just a single name tag to be used for all languages, that's fine.
This will atleast give bogus warnings with places like Brussels that
are bilingual, where name actually contains the name in both languages
(Dutch and French), and also has the language specific name for both
languages.
But that is pure tagging-for-the-renderer isn't it?
Why should that be needed?
Should we change Mailand (German name of Italian city) to name="Milano
(Mailand)"? or to name="Milano (Mailand, Milan)", or should we add the
chinese name, too, because a big part of the people in the world speak
chinese?
I think, that's nothing we should include in the name tag - even not in
Brussels.
Name should be a shortcut to one, best-fitting local language.
Where that is ambiguous name should be ONE fitting, but not more than one.
regards
Peter
Kurt
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