[Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

Mark Goodge mark at good-stuff.co.uk
Sat Oct 31 13:56:05 UTC 2020



On 31/10/2020 11:03, Ben Proctor wrote:

> 
> Example:
> name: Caernarfon
> name:cy Caernarfon

That's not a particularly good example, as Caernarfon is the Welsh name. 
The English name is Caernarvon. But in this case, nobody, not even the 
English, uses the English name any more. The English version though, is 
found in a lot of historical documentation. So including it somewhere is 
probably appropriate.

I'm not sure, though, that name:en would be the right tag, as that 
implies that it's a name in current use. Do we have a way of tagging 
historic or archaic names? If so, then I'd use that for Caernarvon.

Mark



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