On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:49 PM, marc marc <marc_marc_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I remain convinced that spelling rules have no place in osm tags > even if it would be convenient. > They are not spelling rules. And your comment implies that people shouldn't try to spell names correctly. If "spelling rules have no place in OSM tags" then there can be no objection to mapping the capital of the UK as "Lundun," etc. There is every reason to hope that mappers will spell names correctly according to the rules of the local language. So spelling rules do have a place in the values of free-form OSM tags such as name=*. These are, in fact, local typographical conventions. Almost as important as local spelling rules. Hyphenation conventions, for example, can be quite complex. Even in English, it would be undesirable for "Therapist's Lane" to be hyphenated as "The- rapist's Lane." If they are to be added, the primary tools should first be asked to > manage them before considering their use. otherwise the slightest search > on a street name can fail, it's worse than having an incorrect return to > the line. > I'd be very scathing if there is *any* widely-used OSM tool that does not handle Unicode correctly. It's been over 40 years since 7-bit ASCII could be considered adequate. A couple of decades since operating systems did not handle Unicode as standard. There are specifications of how Unicode strings should be compared. Programming libraries which follow those specifications shouldn't suffer the problems you anticipate. Programming libraries which don't follow Unicode specifications are *broken* . You appear not to know that correct Unicode handling is essential for many languages where a single glyph may be composed of two or more combining characters. Without correct Unicode handling it is impossible to represent names correctly in those languages. The correct course of action is to check that widely-used OSM tools handle Unicode correctly (which they should, anyway) and fix them if they do not. -- Paul
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