[OSM-talk] Announcing name searches for OSM

[Lester Caine]

Torsten Breda wrote:
>     Of cause full Unicode support is essential to cover all variations, but
>     basically we end up with name:en-GB
> 
> Isn't name:en enough, because are there differences in names from en-US 
> to en-GB?

If we did not have free format text it probably would be. You could tie the 
country to the name, but since any text can be used anywhere, an indication of 
the CORRECT spell checker to use for language related elements would be an 
advantage.

> Feel free to edit the wiki-page.

I'm not saying that things have to change, but just pointing out that as 
usual, not all of the problems have yet been considered ;)
Personally I would still prefer to see the multilingual side handled in a much 
more well managed way, so you can select a language with which to view the 
data, but that has already been scrapped :(

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