[Tagging] 'name' variation tags standardisation

[Craig Wallace]

On 25/06/2010 13:04, yarl at o2.pl wrote:
> Now there is a good trend to use colon in key names. Maybe we should
> move these tags below?
>
> int_name ->  name:international
> nat_name ->  name:national
> reg_name ->  name:regional
> loc_name ->  name:local
> old_name ->  name:old
> alt_name ->  name:alt or name:alternative
> official_name ->  name:official
>
> But then we can have structures like that: name:official:de/ru/etc.
>
> What do you think about it?

But how do you know whether the part after the colon is a language code 
or a type of name?
eg "alt" is the ISO 639-2 code for Southern Altai.
This will make things more complicated for data processors, eg how do 
you just extract all names that have a name in more than one language?

Craig