[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/2/21 Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>:
> Well... if there's no localized name tag, then you may omit the name:xx tag
> for that language, as there's no alternative.


as you point out yourself, then you won't know in which language this
name is. We should tag something like lang=xx to set the default
language (also lang=xx;yy;zz for multiple default/official languages).
Actually what could be omitted then is the "name"-tag, but not the
"name:xx"-tag.

cheers,
Martin