Ühel kaunil päeval (laupäev, 12. november 2005 15:27) kirjutas Albert Astals Cid: > > Albert: One way of cutting down the size might be to review whether we > > need repeating entries (eg entries for a country in the Europe section, > > and the same entries in the World section). I vaguely recall a > > discussion 6 months ago about adding the .kgm qualifiers for the entries > > (I think the reason was to disambiguate identical placenames?), but this > > leads to bloat in the file. Would it not be better to get rid of the .kgm > > entries, and disambiguate via additions to the name (eg Paris (Texas) and > > Paris (France)? > > I disagree, i mean, if you are in Europe map, you don't want to get Paris > (France) as a string, you only want Paris, imagine you where in a tellme > the capital of and you get > Tellme the capital of France: > Madrid > London > Paris (France) > Moscow > > :-D > > Albert Well, these additions has to be for translators (comments), I think - there may be (and there is!) languages which use different translation e.g. for Paris (Texas) and Paris (France). As in your example: if there is Paris, then in Estonian there is just no right answer, but if there is Pariis (note difference - second "i"), then, of course, it's right answer. Marek Laane Estonian translator