[Tagging] Country names

[Peter Körner]

Am 15.10.2010 15:02, schrieb Emilie Laffray:
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> On 15 October 2010 13:55, <john at jfeldredge.com
> <mailto:john at jfeldredge.com>> wrote:
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>     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.
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> 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.

It may get a problem in a BiDi Scenario but this is up to the UI of the 
editors and the renderers.

Peter