<html><head></head><body>If the term in question is normally written as two or more words, connected by hyphens, then hyphens should be used. If the term is normally written as two or more words, separated by spaces, then the spaces should be replaced by underscores. Replacing a hyphen by an underscore changes the meaning.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 25, 2014 7:46:33 AM CDT, Pieren <pieren3@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer<br /><dieterdreist@gmail.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> the space gets replaced by an underscore<br /></blockquote><br />+1<br />The problem is not to have a preference between underscore and hypen<br />but to know if our English colleagues can agree on the separator space<br />or hyphen.<br /><br />Pieren<br /><br /><hr /><br />Tagging mailing list<br />Tagging@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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