[OSM-talk] [HOT] Nametagging: Local script versus

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 28 February 2011 21:40, Steve Doerr <steve.doerr en blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On 28/02/2011 16:55, Ed Avis wrote:
>>
>> Jean-Marc Liotier<jm<at>  liotier.org>  writes:
>>
>>> By the way, for latin script names, should we use int_name, name:en or
>>> both ?
>>
>> If the name is still in Arabic, but Arabic written with the Latin
>> alphabet,
>> then name:ar en Latin would be correct.
>
> Did you just make that up, or is this use of the @ symbol a pre-existing
> standard?

The part after @ is the "modifier" in posix locales and is often used
for script type, see for example
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/LocaleMapping

Cheers