[OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[Jonas Häggqvist]

Peter Körner wrote:
> Hello OSM folks
> 
> For the integration of osm into the wikipedia there will be localized 
> maps in all languages that have their own wikipedia. The problem is, 
> that a lot of countries are not translated yet.

If you need help translating country names for your language and Wikipedia
doesn't have the information, Debian maintains a set of translations for
the countries in ISO 3166[1] which might be useful. The source [2] can be
downloaded. Unpack it (using either standard UNIX tools, or something like
7-zip[3] if  you're on Windows) and look inside the iso3166 directory and
open the file "xx.po" in a text editor, where xx is the two-letter
language code for your language.

[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166>
[2]
<http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/iso-codes/iso-codes_3.10.2.orig.tar.gz>
[3] <http://www.7-zip.org/>
-- 
Jonas Häggqvist
rasher(at)rasher(dot)dk