On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:42:42PM +0000, Pierre Béland wrote: > This is very interesting more particulary in areas of the world were we do > not recognize the alphabets. > > I tried it in Syria were default names are in arabic. If there is a > correspondance for the language I select it is ok. Otherwise, the default > name is kept. And there are many areas around the world were we are > analphabets not knowing the characters. > > This brings the concept of languages proximity and establishing a priority in > selecting language to show when there is no name for your selected language. > For instance, if french or italian or spanish is not available, english > should be showed before arabic, russian, etc. if it is in the list of names.
Thats why in this demo you can choose a list of languages. So when you enter "fr,it,es,en" in the field, those languages are tried in turn before the standard "name" tag is tried. This is obviously too complicated for everyday use, so for a real map application we have to find a different way, for instance using the browser preferences or having a hardcoded list of languages that are similar to others or so. Unfortunately using such a list can also be quite confusing if the user isn't aware of it. Suggestions welcome. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
