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

Mon Jun 23 16:52:16 UTC 2014

offhand if you are declaring lang attribute on html element its a very nice
setup for alternating certain styles aimed at lang/cultures

On Monday, June 23, 2014, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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>> >> University, Japan
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