[Tagging] Country names

[Emilie Laffray]

On 15 October 2010 13:55, <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:

> How would you handle the situation of what is on the sign being in more
> than one character set, such as a sign being labeled in both English (in
> Roman letters) and Arabic (in Arabic letters)?  From photos I have seen,
> this is not uncommon in large cities, in countries where the local language
> or languages use non-Western scripts.
>

As far as I am aware, OSM is storing the data in UTF-8 and mixing two
scripts is not a problem.
Inputting it might be a problem but if you get local people to do it, it is
not a problem.

Emilie Laffray
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