[OSM-talk] Announcing name searches for OSM

[Dermot McNally]

On 07/05/07, Christoph Eckert <ce at christeck.de> wrote:

> But there are not only german umlauts. what's with other locations like
> Århus in Denmark? Maybe the single character replacement is the most
> 'general' idea.

Sorry, didn't mean to suggest that only the "ue" equivalent should be
supported - certainly most English speakers wouldn't expect to do it
that way - but to look for vowel+e combinations and test them against
umlauts as an additional check would be very useful.

Dermot