Localization

The first two posts covered the mechanism and the pipeline: Immich reads place names from cities500.txt, and that file is produced from national mapping data by extract and release. Technically, “how to swap the data” is a settled question. The genuinely hard part is something else: what should a foreign place name look like so that it reads naturally to a Taiwanese user? immich-geodata-zh-tw currently handles five regions, and it gives five different answers. This post is about the criterion behind those answers.