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

Mon Jun 23 08:41:52 UTC 2014

Could you open an issue with the details you just gave in the issue tracker:

https://github.com/okfn/opendatacensus/issues

Then the devs can take a look :-)

rufus

On 23 June 2014 09:40, Masayuki Hatta <mhatta at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> > 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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