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				<title>Getting french results from searchJSON web service</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I'm getting some US County names returning in French (Comte de...) even when specifying lang=en. It only happens when I do a name_startsWith=c. For example: [http://api.geonames.org/searchJSON?featureCode=PPL&featureCode=ADM2&username=demo&adminCode1=AL&maxRows=500&name_startsWith=c&lang=en]

Any ideas?]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:25:25]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ stdavis]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Getting french results from searchJSON web service</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ it is actually a feature. The startsWith service is searching on all alternate names and returns a matching name even if it is a different language. Often it is legitimate to use a name of an other language, in particular in the native language. It would certainly be ok to return the French name of locations in French speaking countries. 
I am now wondering whether it would make sense for the service to check the languages spoken in the area and only return a foreign name if it is natively spoken there.

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:17:15]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ marc]]></author>
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