[Talk-ko] What is 'English' anyways?

[Thierry Bézecourt]

Le 22/10/2015 07:19, Andrew Errington a écrit :
>
> In my opinion name=* should be what is written on the sign, which means
> Hangul and "English", as we see on many street signs.

That is what I thought at first, for the same reasons, but that battle 
was fought and lost. See the practice in other countries. And we 
honestly cannot say "map what is written on the sign" when the street 
signs carries four different names (Hangeul, Latin script, Chinese and 
Japanese). What we need is better tools.

I personally added dozens or hundreds of name=* tags with both Hangeul 
and Latin-script names (because it's more convenient when walking in the 
streets with Vespucci on my mobile phone...), but I won't mind if 
someone separates these names in separate fields.

> How about the following definitions, as a starting point?
>
> name=*
> The most prominent name written on the sign. e.g. Hangul for street
> signs, or English for some shops or cafes, or in some cases, Chinese
> (Hanja) script.
>
> name:ko=*
> The name in Hangul (it may be a duplicate of name=*, but that's ok)
  >
> name:ko_Latn=*
> The Romanized version of name:ko=*

In my opinion, it should be the (official) name of the street in Latin 
script, i.e the one that appears on street signs. The purely Romanized 
version might appear in name:phonetic, because I don't see what it can 
be useful for except pronunciation...

> name:zh=*
> The name in Hanja

I'd say in Chinese. That name is for Chinese tourists, not for Korean 
people (or highly proficient foreigners...) who care about Hanja.

Thierry