Language picker in other languages

[wmisener]

I love the language picker, it probably makes this style already the most easily multilingual OSM style I’ve seen. However, it’s somewhat ironic that it only finds languages if their name is typed in English. Is it technically feasible to search for languages with names other than their English one? By this I mean that typing "Esp" in the search should suggest "Español/Spanish". It might be unfeasible/overwhelming to have every language available at all times, but at least as a start maybe it could retrieve the native name for the language in its own tongue as well as English? So that either "Deutsch" or "German" would pull up German, "Español" or "Spanish" would pull up Spanish, "Nihongo" (or maybe in kanji instead/as well) or "Japanese" for Japanese, etc. Allowing searching on the ISO language codes could further this as well, though it'd be maybe less obvious for a new user.

Screenshots of what I mean:

Typing "Esp" retrieves only Esperanto, whereas it'd be nice if it suggested "Spanish"/"Español".

Typing "Deu" suggests nothing, whereas it'd be nice if it suggested "German"/"Deutsch"

[nickrsan]

Allowing searching on the ISO language codes could further this as well, though it'd be maybe less obvious for a new user

I've wanted this as well, or alternatively a way to toggle to a view where I could select from a list. I think the search method is a good default, but it leaves a lot of mystery as to what's available, and sometimes I'm not sure if I'm not typing something correctly or if it's just not available.

[claysmalley]

The names of the languages in the search field are actually in whatever display language you've picked (or browser settings if unspecified). If I put &language=de,en at the end of the URL, my search results are in German:

Though I agree that it would be helpful to search for language names in their native forms. Not everyone is going to know all the exonyms for their own language.

[wmisener]

Huh, that's not the behavior I experience, maybe I'm doing something wrong? I have language=es, but results are clearly in English, not Spanish

[claysmalley]

Ah, it requires refreshing the page. Guess that's another bug.

[1ec5]

If you changed the language parameter while looking at the page, it hot-swapped in the new language on the map, but the control needs to be updated too.

I agree that we should also include languages by their autonyms and ISO codes in the suggestions.