[OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

[Svavar Kjarrval]

I meant a semicomma, sorry. That is, ;

- Svavar

On 25/07/12 16:24, Lester Caine wrote:
> Svavar Kjarrval wrote:
>> I was thinking about roughly the same idea except the process is a bit
>> different. There could be an alternate usage through references.
>> Something like
>> [de] in the name tag could indicate a reference to name:de. A
>> semicolon in the
>> name tag could be used to indicate the order of languages to display
>> or backups
>> in case the name:* in the front of the line don't exist.
>
> The use of ':' in a key is well establish as flagging a language
> specific version, so one would not touch that. The 'name=' defaulting
> to a specific 'lang=' setting makes sense, and can be over-ridden when
> downloading tag data by a client specific setting. The only addition
> that needs handling is to sort out just what goes into 'lang=' when
> more than one language is required by the on the ground situation. In
> my opinion, we just select a suitable single character separator and
> add the tag with an appropriate list if required. I don't think you
> want to start messing with 'name=' itself in this case? But the tools
> should be able to override the 'name=' tag with a more suitable local
> option based on a local 'lang=' setting.
>



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