[OSM-talk] Introduction and a name key language question

[Dave]

On 1/23/07, Ali Lakrakbi <alilakrakbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having the same problems in all names!
>
> I am mappign Morocco and street/city names are originaly in arabic,
> but for non arabic speakers we use common latin naming.
>
> how should it be tagged?
>
> name:ar=مراكش
> name: la= marrakech
>
> is that the right way?


Most of this has been thought through by people at the W3C. There's an
explanation here:
http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/Overview.en.php

basically you use language-script-region, but always use the absolute
minimum necessary, so:
name=مراكش (to define the default for the region)
name:ar=مراكش
name:ar-Latn=marrakech

a much more interesting one might be:
name=طنچة*
*name:ar=طنچة
name:ar-Latn=Tanja
name:en=Tangier
name:fr=Tanger
but that's probably way more complicated than anyone could be bothered
with...
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