On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> wrote: > It shouldn't be too hard to make a JOSM add-on that converts 3 letters into > 2. So that's no problem.
You seem to be not seeing the point. Two letter days of the week (DOW) may be standard in German, and that's fine. But the tags we use in OSM are in English. They aren't in an abstracted system which we then render- we use English and then codify from there. It's what many software projects do, and it's what we do. So then we must ask "What is the standard way of representing a day of the week in English?". The way is to look at a standard, such as the locale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale) So if you look at your locale from a *nix system- you will see the abday, and you will see unicode encoded strings that show the day of the week. Since that is a pain to look at, we can use Python to help us: >>> import time >>> time.strftime("%a") 'Wed' If you aren't familiar with Python (or the C it borrows from), strftime prints out the time, and I've given it the parameter to display the shortened day of the week, according the locale (in my case, en_US). I'm not about to say that whether we use three letters or two is the end of the world, but I will say that we should strive to use things that are standard- things that are defined elsewhere. Doing so will make it easier for folks to use the software, but also easier for programmers to have something they expect. - Serge _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
