[OSM-talk] OSM and new Wikipedia map features

Mark Wagner mark+osm at carnildo.com
Sat May 5 03:58:45 UTC 2018


Japanese has three *alphabets* (well, two syllabaries and a set of
logographs), but only one writing system.  For any given thing you want
to write, there's only one correct set of symbols to use.

-- 
Mark


On Fri, 4 May 2018 08:11:14 +0200
Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Japanese has 3 writing systems.
> 
> Jo
> 
> 2018-05-04 1:10 GMT+02:00 Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl>:
> 
> > W dniu 04.05.2018 o 00:33, Joe Matazzoni pisze:
> >
> > Here is the list of languages Wikimedia supports. https://en.
> > wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix
> > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1525471804237000&usg=AFQjCNHsOP6lQnhNIucbS2AyFY26AG7tiA> .
> > As to the toolchain, if you ask that question on the project page,
> > some of our engineers will be able to respond.  Be sure to explain
> > why you’re asking, so we can answer you fully.
> >
> >
> > It's not exactly what interests me:
> >
> > a) do you want to support all these languages (not how many of them
> > are there)?
> >
> > b) how many server resources do you need for rendering <n>
> > languages that you want to support (not the software stack used)?
> >
> > Do you know it or should I ask the engineers anyway?
> >
> > That is a very interesting edge case we hadn’t thought of.  We’ll
> > have to look into that one; our lead engineer just wrote a ticket
> > to investigate: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193815
> > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193815&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1525472750803000&usg=AFQjCNEzVPXSLGmL0dxiGsN09aYPHA7_JA>.
> >  I know about Serbian. What other languages do this?
> >
> >
> > Belorusian has two writing systems (see http://openstreetmap.by for
> > 4 languages demo).
> >
> > Chineese has few different writing systems.
> >
> > Buginese can use Lontara or Latin script.
> >
> >
> > There might be more of such cases.
> >
> > --
> > "My method is uncertain/ It's a mess but it's working" [F. Apple]
> >
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