[OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice

[G H S]

"In terms of deployment, I don't think the community will approve canceling the 'name' tag completely.
 
So an alternative plausible solution could be to have a mechanism
which refers to one of the name:xx, such as Tal has suggested. We
could agree on some escape character that is used inside the tag
content ($ or \ or whatever is not commonly used). We would have
something like that:
name=$(name:fr)
name:fr="French Here"
name:en="English Here"
name:ar="Arabic Here" "


Interesting idea, but how would changing the content of the name tag to something like the above be better
than getting rid of it completely?  Wouldn't that still break existing apps?  If so, you might as well get
rid of it and go with the "local=" idea.

Tagging every text entry (not just names) with a language would have been the way to go from day 1, but with so many done already
it seems like a lost cause.

Gavin


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