[Tagging] Tagging of Country Names

[Chris Hill]

How would you propose making this change?
Cheers, Chris (chillly)

On 25 October 2016 16:02:05 BST, Sven Geggus <lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>in our localized German map style we try to render Country names in
>German
>with local name in parenthesis.
>
>This works fine for a lot of countries. An example would be Thailand:
>Thailand (ประเทศไทย)
>
>or (more readable for westerners) France:
>Frankreich (France)
>
>Unfortunately there are some countries where this will not work:
>
>Ägypten (Egypt مصر)
>
>So this is where the tagging discussion starts.
>
>I consider this a bad example of tagging for the renderer.
>
>English is not an official language of Egypt thus the string "Egypt" is
>simply invalid in the countries name tag.
>
>What I consider valid would be the countires name in all of its
>official
>langages.
>
>Thus the right one would be:
>Ägypten (مصر)
>
>So I propose a correction of all country names to names into official
>langages of
>the respective countries only and to remove all english names.
>
>Any objectives?
>
>Sven
>
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