On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:02 AM, LIVINE Christin <l...@mail.pf> wrote: > Hi, > > I added many points with multiple languages with name:fr, name:en, name:ja, > name:ja_rm, name:ja_kana. > I would like to add names in languages of French Polynesia. How to do ? > > ISO code for writing and speaking is the same ?
Yes and no, and this is one of the assumptions that is responsible for the language tagging mess we currently have. For example, writing system for a language can also include specifics of the script as one language can be written down in multiple scripts. As I've been arguing before, I think OSM should start following BCP 47 [1]. Most of the time, ISO 639 code will suffice, but for the above example of Japanese, "ja_rm" is an invalid code. "ja_kana" is not canonical (ja-Kana to BCP 47) but systems should parse this form as well. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
