On Saturday 15 September 2018, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> please let us not use "complicated" characters, on some keyboards
> those aren't even indicated and you might need multifinger
> combinations to type them. If the key says "language format" I
> believe for the value we only have to define a separator. The strings
> between the separator will be "formats" and we'll not need curly
> braces to understand it (e.g. "de;fr" or "de+fr"). If you prefer, we
> could allow traling and leading spaces ("de + fr") for improved
> readability.That is a very different idea and without knowing the supposed meaning of this list of language codes i am not really sure what to think of it. The purpose of the format string is to allow documenting the locally preferred form to display names - which is exactly what the name tag is currently used for, just in a less transparent, less consistent and more difficult to maintain and to interpret form. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
