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Subject: Re: KGeography needs your help
From: Albert Astals Cid <tsdgeos () yahoo ! es>
Date: 2005-11-12 14:10:51
Message-ID: 200511121510.51590.tsdgeos () yahoo ! es
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A Dissabte 12 Novembre 2005 15:01, Marek Laane va escriure:
> 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
Well, that's why i use qualifiers as comments, so you have to input a
translation of each Paris that appears on a different map.
Albert
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