How to set the display language of foreign settlements in Russian in the Maperitive program (map rendering)?

Question

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I found this expression
text : @any(, , name)
but how to use it in the program?

Answer 1

The documentation for the text property is here:
maperitive.net/docs/Properties/Text.html
Accordingly, @any() selects any key from the parenthesized list in order.
If you are rendering a map of Russia, then the name key contains the Russian name by default. So it’s enough to write:
If this is a map of another country, you should not expect the mandatory presence of names in Russian, but if they do exist, they will be contained in name: ru, so the code will be like this:
In this case, if there is a Russian-language name it will be displayed, in the absence - name will be selected.
If we are talking about a country with some alphabet that you do not know (Japan, for example) - add and / or there to replace hieroglyphs with Latin with some probability.
If you definitely need only Russian-language names, but they are not in the source data, you will have to process the data yourself and add transliteration or something similar there.