[OSM-talk] very long multiple int_name tags in Near East

Christoph Hormann chris_hormann at gmx.de
Wed Nov 20 11:13:05 UTC 2013


On Wednesday 20 November 2013, Peter Wendorff wrote:
>
> (I skipped a few because Thunderbird is nearly unusable navigating
> through a mixed text of left-to-right and right-to-left languages
> and/or because there isn't a corresponding localized wikipedia page
> where I could have matched the languages).

There is:

> > (صيد)

Arabic

> > (صَيْدَ)

Arabic with harakat (short vowel marks)

The latter is not in the other name tags and since it can help to 
resolve possible pronounciation ambiguities it might be useful to keep 
it.  Not sure if there is a separate language code for that.

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Christoph Hormann
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