[OSM-dev] Need advise for localization ofMapnik/Osmarender/Data search

[Jens Müller]

Arne Goetje schrieb:
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> wolschon wrote:
>> If you want an englich map, you should use
>> "name:en_UK", fall back to "name:en" and then fall back to "name".
>> "name" will give you the most common name, wich need not be english at
>> all.
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> well, we don't have any en_UK tags in Taiwan, so it would be :en with
> fallback to 'name'. And if, then it would be en_US. However, the
> transliterations actually cannot be called "English", because it has
> nothing to do with English. It's just an aid for foreigners so that they
> know how to pronounce the street names. And as I stated already, there
> exist multiple different systems and revisions thereof to accomplish
> that goal more or less. 

So, why not use
name:zh_TW
name:zh_TW-latin (the locally used transscription)
name:zh_TW-hanyupinyin
name:zh_TW-tongyongpinyin
name:zh_TW-zhuyin
? ;-)