I meant a semicomma, sorry. That is, ; - Svavar
On 25/07/12 16:24, Lester Caine wrote: > Svavar Kjarrval wrote: >> I was thinking about roughly the same idea except the process is a bit >> different. There could be an alternate usage through references. >> Something like >> [de] in the name tag could indicate a reference to name:de. A >> semicolon in the >> name tag could be used to indicate the order of languages to display >> or backups >> in case the name:* in the front of the line don't exist. > > The use of ':' in a key is well establish as flagging a language > specific version, so one would not touch that. The 'name=' defaulting > to a specific 'lang=' setting makes sense, and can be over-ridden when > downloading tag data by a client specific setting. The only addition > that needs handling is to sort out just what goes into 'lang=' when > more than one language is required by the on the ground situation. In > my opinion, we just select a suitable single character separator and > add the tag with an appropriate list if required. I don't think you > want to start messing with 'name=' itself in this case? But the tools > should be able to override the 'name=' tag with a more suitable local > option based on a local 'lang=' setting. >
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