RE: Translations of city names

From: Jonathan Rosenne <jr_at_qsm.co.il>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 20:05:59 +0000

FWIW, I looked up Copenhagen in the Danish list and received "Søgning gav ikke noget resultat" which means literally "Search produced no result" (I do know that in Danish it is København).

Best Regards,

Jonathan Rosenne

-----Original Message-----
From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces_at_unicode.org] On Behalf Of Ken Whistler
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 7:47 PM
To: Frédéric Grosshans
Cc: unicode_at_unicode.org
Subject: Re: Translations of city names

The UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) is also relevant:

https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/default.html

They keep up a list of searchable geographical names databases in a wide variety of languages:

https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/geonames.html

--Ken

On 3/2/2017 8:22 AM, Frédéric Grosshans wrote:
> It looks like the community having the expertise to answer such
> question is the GIS (Geography Information Systems) community, more
> than the Unicode community. Have you tried asking a question on
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/ ?
Received on Thu Mar 02 2017 - 14:06:43 CST

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