[Tagging] Tagging of Country Names
Dave F
davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com
Wed Oct 26 23:35:56 UTC 2016
On 26/10/2016 20:56, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
> if we go with "official" we will always be on the side of the
> powerful, and we will completely ignore other aspects. Take the Basque
> area as example, it is not long ago, that only French and Spanish
> (according to the side you are looking at) were officially recognized,
> we would have completely ignored the native Basque population with
> this rule.
Basque area isn't a country & the region can be rendered with it's own
regional name using name:*=.
>
> Also, if you write "official language", would this include recognized
> minority languages? Should we have a different tag for this?
> See here for example about the only one "official language" in France
> and other relevant languages:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_France
See my comment above
Cheers
DaveF
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