[Open-data-census] How to localize the name of cities for Local Open Data Census

Mon Jun 23 08:40:28 UTC 2014

Hi, thanks for tip!

Seems there is a bug which prevent the system from reloading/updating
the config if Name(not ID) in Places starts with multi-byte
characters. e,g, "Tokyo 東京" works(that's something Taiwan folks use as
a kludge(?)), but simply "東京" not.  Could you check the system log to
see what's going on?

BTW, It's okay for us Japanese to show the city names in (only)
Japanese in Name, but I guess non-Japanese speakers don't appreciate
that.  Would'nt it  be nice to have a mechanism to switch Japanese /
English city names by locales? (seems most of messages and Questions
and Descriptions are fully i18n-ed).

Best regards,
MH

2014-06-23 17:18 GMT+09:00 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>:
> In the Places sheet just have the Name field have the Japanese name. Note
> though that the ID column must have a value that is usable in urls (so
> recommend plain ascii).
>
> Rufus
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> On 23 June 2014 09:14, Masayuki Hatta <mhatta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm now setting up Japan City Open Data
>> Sensus(http://jp-city.census.okfn.org/).  I'd like to translate the
>> name of cities(Tokyo, Osaka, etc.) into Japanese, but can't figure out
>> how to do.  Seems simply putting Name at JP into Config - Places
>> worksheet doesn't work.  Could someone explain how ?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> MH
>>
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