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

[Steve Doerr]

On 03/03/2011 02:19, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> On 28 February 2011 21:40, Steve Doerr<steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk>  wrote:
>> On 28/02/2011 16:55, Ed Avis wrote:
>>> If the name is still in Arabic, but Arabic written with the Latin
>>> alphabet,
>>> then name:ar at 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
>

Looks like a good scheme. Conflicts slightly with the suggestion at 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name>, under 'Localization', of 
using name:ko_rm for romanized Korean.

Presumably name at Latin would also be desirable?

-- 
Steve