[Tagging] Tagging of Country Names

[Richard Welty]

On 10/25/16 2:44 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> Il giorno 25 ott 2016, alle ore 17:02, Sven Geggus <lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de> ha scritto:
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>> 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.
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> how are you going to determine the official language, and are you aware that there are areas where on the ground a different language than the "official" one is used?
consider Belgium, with two distinctly different language groupings, both
representing a sizeable portion of the population. and consider Switzerland
where a number of different languages are spoken in different parts of the
country. and this is just western europe...

"the language spoken in a country" in more than one case does not have one
correct answer.

richard

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