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

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Wed Jul 7 06:56:18 BST 2010


On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:40:28 +1000, Stephen Hope <slhope at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.

Seems to be a general problem. I get the same results for IE and
Firefox (mine is IE 7 and FF 3.6.6).

And I'm in the Netherlands with English versions of the programs, and
the only language in IE is Dutch.

Maarten


> 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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