[OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns]

Also unicode CLDR is good source.

http://cldr.unicode.org/

Lauris

2009/8/13 Jonas Häggqvist <rasher at rasher.dk>:
> 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
>
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