Martin, how can we evaluate the extent of this, to see how serious this may be?
BTW, I totally agree that doing a guessing game based on "nl - fr" to parse the name is much worse than simply picking "name:nl" or "name:fr" when they are available. names with multiple languages are not very helpful for the truly multilingual maps. On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 2:10 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 10. May 2018, at 00:47, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > In the few rare cases when it does happen, it would be enough to also > add "name:fr" and "name:nl" tags to fix the issue -- localization would > take the specific language, and won't even try to parse the name tag. I > think finding these cases should be relatively easy with OT. > > > The problem I see with less prominent objects is that you only have a name > and can’t tell whether that is one name in one language or 2 names in > different languages for the same thing separated by a hyphen. Potentially > this could happen in other tags like operator as well. > > cheers, > Martin
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