[OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

[Miloš Komarčević]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> "Petr Morávek [Xificurk]" wrote:
>>
>> lang="it - de" => name="Bolzano - Bozen"
>> lang="it (de)" => name="Bolzano (Bozen)"
>> lang="it / de" => name="Bolzano / Bozen"
>
>
> While I can understand why you propose this, it makes 'decoding' the
> languages by tools a little more difficult, and 'hard codes' a format, which
> alternative uses may need to replace? Does hard coding the display format
> here make sense in general terms?
>

Totally agree, this formatting is not the databases problem, and
should be left to the render to decide how to format e.g. the desired
list of languages lang=it;de.

M