[OSM-talk] Announcing name searches for OSM

[Abigail Brady]

On 5/8/07, Robert Hart <bathterror at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Isn't name:en enough, because are there differences in names from en-US to
> > en-GB?
>
> Given this system of language codes is already defined then adopting
> it will cover all possible cases even if the number of places that
> have multiple names within a single language is a very small
> proportion of the small proportion of places that have multiple names
> at all.
>
> I'd hazard a guess that virtually no english place names have
> gb/us/au/whatever variations, that they do occur frequently enough in
> other languages to be worth bothering about - Chinese and Arabic
> strike me as obvious candidates.

RFC 3066 is certainly an option.  It seems a little odd though to
denounce ISO 639-1 because its tags are different to those for country
codes (this is because languages aren't countries. duh), and yet
praise RFC 3066, whilst failing to note that RFC 3066 is, at its core,
based on ISO 639 codes.

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Abi