Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

2014-11-25 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 24.11.2014 22:54, fly wrote: > Do we recommend any order ? youngest to oldest ? name= alt_name=;;... ...because data consumers certainly use these in the same order. Two examples: 1) Rendering: Say, there's space for one alternative name in parentheses. The renderer may take the shortest valu

Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

2014-11-25 Thread Guttorm Flatabø
2014-11-25 14:09 GMT+01:00 Friedrich Volkmann : > On 24.11.2014 22:54, fly wrote: > > Do we recommend any order ? youngest to oldest ? > > name= > alt_name=;;... > > ...because data consumers certainly use these in the same order. Two > examples: > > 1) Rendering: Say, there's space for one altern

Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

2014-11-25 Thread althio forum
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Lukas Sommer wrote: > I think it could be useful to have a clear documentation on the wiki about > which solution is the preferred one. > Oh yes! I would appreciate clear and explicit documentation on this one! On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Tobias Knerr wr

Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

2014-11-25 Thread John F. Eldredge
Also, parsing a semicolon-delimited string into an array of strings is a simple task in most programming languages. On November 24, 2014 5:35:21 PM CST, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/24/2014 11:51 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > > The semi-colon is not universally accepted, for good reasons.