[OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

[Lester Caine]

"Petr Morávek [Xificurk]" wrote:
>> While I can understand why you propose this, it makes 'decoding' the
>> >languages by tools a little more difficult,
> Not really, it's a matter of simple regular expression.
>
>> >and 'hard codes' a format, which alternative uses may need to replace?
> What? That was the point of my proposal, NO hard-coded format (hard
> coded in the sense of specifying_one-true-format_  in the algorithm itself).
>
> If you stick with my proposal:
> - you can easily satisfy "on the ground rule" for the local default
> value of tag generated from 'lang' template
> - if you don't want/need the default local template, just ignore the
> lang value, and generate your own value from key:lang values
> - if you only want a list of locally used languages, but don't care
> about the locally used format of multilingual signs, it's again a matter
> of one simple regular expression (i.e. you can always go in the
> direction format string=>list of langs, but you can never go in the
> opposite direction)

Actually when you put it that way it does make sense ...
I was thinking more on displaying two or more names while rendering, but of 
cause the 'on the ground' format is just as important. I'm just used to keeping 
data and format separate ...

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