[OSM-talk] Rendering in a non-default language

[Michael Collinson]

At 04:14 PM 1/31/2008, Gregory wrote:
>For the map of Israel I believe the contents of name and name:he should
>be equal. Then you get what you want. If somebody wants a map with the
>names in English, he'll have to do some extra effort.
>
>Polyglot
>
>
>I believe it's actually debated what language name= should be in, 
>possibly settling on International English or at least 
><http://osm.org>osm.org is inteded to display international names.

There was a discussion on dealing with country names which is 
probably generally applicable. I believe the general consensus would 
be like this:

name=<name in Hebrew, Hebrew script>
name:he=<name in Hebrew, Hebrew script>
int_name=<name in English, Romanic script>

>Anyway, I think it's good to encourage lots of different language maps.

+1

Mike
Stockholm




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