Nepali name forced for venues in Nepal

[perfran]

Hello,

Wanting to contribute in Nepal, I notice that upon adding a venue in Nepal, the name field is forced to be in nepali.
We cannot add a name field in English, although especially in tourist areas like kathmandu and on the trail, very often the venues only have an English name and no nepali name.
What should I do?

Thanks!

[matkoniecz]

Maybe https://github.com/streetcomplete/countrymetadata/blob/master/data/officialLanguages.yml#L302 should list also English as language?

Though I am unsure about implication, would it result in demanding both Nepali and English names everywhere? (I would need to test it)
And would not be really correct, as English is probably not really the official language there.

[matkoniecz]

Also, not sure whether it should be reported as an issue or not. It would be more noticeable there

[mnalis]

Also, not sure whether it should be reported as an issue or not. It would be more noticeable there

Yeah, I would suggest that @perfran opens an issue of type Feature request, as unresolved discussion are hard to track, and thus likely to be forgotten. I'm also not sure about legal status, but wikipedia seems to show examples of Street signs in Ranjana script, Devanagari script and English and designates it as Vernacular, so perhaps it should be added...

[mnalis]

• ref. Don't enforce Nepali language when adding places in Nepal #6399

[perfran]

Maybe ask for Nepali by default but give the option in the menu to add English?

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