[Tagging] International and UN names

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

what about “Le Bistrot”? “Jacques le Croback” (bakery in Berlin, Germany, cannot find it anymore, I guess the name killed them). There is also “SuShe” (female run sushi shop) where pronunciation tagging would be helpful, but it’s also 2 languages in one.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1330623842

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8777609244

The pronunciation tags are probably quite interesting when typical rules for the language would lead to wrong results, but these are just a few edge cases and should not make us encourage putting pronunciation tags everywhere. 
Explicitly specifying the language of the name per object is strange for POIs, usually there is just one name used for all languages (maybe I’m too shortsighted here, there will be some exceptions), commonly when there are several scripts involved, eg a latin brand in somewhere else, they would use a transcription which sounds similar to the native name (save some cases where it would be deemed to sound bad, or even be insulting). For example the “Le Bistrot” is clearly French, but it’s the Italian name as well, there is no other Italian name.

Cheers Martin 

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