[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Tags editor (PR #6758)

[Minh Nguyễn]

1ec5 left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6758)

> In particular I wonder if any local communities maintain tags whose keys have non-latin characters. I'm no expert in any of the many tools that could answer this, so no idea.

I’m unaware of any tagging convention that explicitly calls for non-Latin characters in keys, but some tagging schemes technically allow relatively freeform names as subkeys, such as `payment:*=*` and `ref:*=*`. [This report](https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/reports/characters_in_keys#letters) shows that non-ASCII keys are relatively rare, the most common being [`agglomération=*`](https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/agglom%C3%A9ration) (8,814 occurrences) and [`railway:position:exact:京通`](https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/railway%3Aposition%3Aexact%3A%E4%BA%AC%E9%80%9A) (120).

Formalizing a character set requirement would make the API more opinionated about tagging schemes than it usually is. Mappers using QA tools have historically been responsible for cleaning up exotic characters in keys. It’s quite easy to introduce them using other mainstream editors. The only difference here is that the text box is so accessible that a cat on the keyboard could plausibly mess up a feature.

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