[Talk-ko] Romanisation: a solution

[Max]

Agree, data consumers should read the tag case insensitive, just in 
case, but for tagging we should follow one recommendation and that 
should be -Latn

On 2017년 10월 26일 23:47, Lukas Sommer wrote:
> Makes sense!
> 
> (I’m not sure about lowercase. I would rather opt for ko-Latn because
> also also sr-Latn uses titlecase.)
> Lukas Sommer
> 
> 
> 2017-10-26 3:06 GMT+00:00 Maarten van den Hoven <mrvdhoven at gmail.com>:
>> Dear OSM editors,
>>
>>
>> This email proposes a solution to the Korean and Japanese romanisation
>> tagging issue. Since this topic concerns both Korea and Japan it is sent to
>> their respective mailing lists.
>>
>> The tag for romanised korean is currently "name:ko_rm". However, this is not
>> the international standard. "ko_rm" was most likely chosen a long time ago
>> because people at the time were unformiliar with the global standard as seen
>> here (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Korea_Naming_Convention). The
>> global standard as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force here
>> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47) and backed by W3C, Unicode, ECMA is
>> "ko-Latn" instead of "ko_rm". Adopting a global standard solves confusion
>> over the use of the tag
>> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names#Korea).
>>
>> This talk has been going on for the past years as seen by the above links
>> and this one ->
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.region.ko/204
>> However, I was unable to find arguments in defense of the "ko_rm" tag.
>>
>> Therefore, I suggest an edit of the OSM database (following the official
>> procedure as defined here
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct) of
>> changing all "name:ko_rm" tags to "name:ko-Latn", like Serbia did in the
>> past as well (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names#Serbia).
>>
>> Before this change is pushed it is of course important to see if anyone has
>> objections or other reasons why the "ko_rm" tag was chosen over the
>> "ko-Latn" tag.
>>
>> We encourage editors in Korea to join the OSM Korea Telegram chat group here
>> https://telegram.me/osmKorea.
>>
>> Kind regards.
>>
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