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

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Brian Quinion <
openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk> wrote:

> 2 Part answer:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/556706
>
> Aotearoa is used because it is the default name if it can't find a
> language match.
>
> Firefox sends a language sequence of EN-AU, EN, ...
> IE apparently only sends EN-AU (no pure EN)
>
> This would seem to be a bug in IE - it should be sending a complete
> list of languages in order not just the country specific version.
>

Or, alternatively, Nominatim could, seeing as there is no name:en-au tag,
strip out the dialect part of the Accept-Language HTTP header (EN-AU --> EN)
first to search for possible matches before defaulting to the default name.
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