[Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

Kevin Atkinson kevin at atkinson.dhs.org
Sun Aug 8 06:45:30 BST 2010


On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Alan Millar wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 22:35 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> You certainly CAN have all the abbreviations you want.  I'm just saying
> not to put them in the "name" tag; put them in another tag.  I
> personally don't care if it is loc_name, alt_name, name_2, name:en,
> abbreviated_name, or whatever else you want to call it.  Then work on
> getting the renderer to show it instead of the "name" tag when it
> exists.  Why isn't that a good solution for you?

It might be.  But I don't think "name:en" is the right tag (from your 
previous email).

In any case I want to focus on the other part of my proposal.  See my 
other email I just sent out.




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