[OSM-talk] maori/english search oddities for nz towns

Stephen Hope slhope at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 05:40:28 BST 2010


Chrome - Pahia, New Zealand
Firefox 3.6.6 - Pahia, New Zealand
IE 8.0 - Pahia, Aotearoa

Weird.  Checking my language options in IE, the only language listed
is English, Australian.

Stephen

On 7 July 2010 12:40, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
> well, here's an odd thing:
>
> if i search for pahia from firefox 3.6, it returns 'Pahia, New Zealand'
> if i search from IE7, it returns 'Pahia, Aotearoa' . Aotearoa is the
> Maori name for New Zealand. or rather, new Zealand is the English name
> for Aotearoa
>
> any suggestions why?
>
> can someone else try this, and see what happens
>
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