There is mistake in the city name in steam

[Дівчинка-лицар]

Ukrainian city Lviv writing wrong - Lvov. But Lvivska oblast (Lviv region) writing right.

[my new friend]

Originally posted by Дівчинка-лицар:

Ukrainian city Lviv writing wrong - Lvov. But Lvivska oblast (Lviv region) writing right.

Don't expect Valve to change something they haven't touched in over a decade.

[Edifier]

They are going by Geonames or something so when that list is updated, so is Steam.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Edifier:

They are going by Geonames or something so when that list is updated, so is Steam.

Not really. Valve has to import a database from Geonames and they haven't done so in a long time, which is why it's outdated.

[Дівчинка-лицар]

In the countries that were under the occupation of the USSR, all names were changed to Russian, respectively, and in the world wrote instead of Kyiv - Kiev, instead of the Dnipro - Dnieper, instead of Lviv - Lvov. Now the names have been changed back, but the world has a bad habit of continuing to translate city names into russian and from russian into English. This is done even by Google Translator( But we fight against it!

[rawWwRrr]

You don't have to chose a city.

[Yzal]

Valve's database for this is so old i'm surprised that Soviet Union is not an option.

[MultiKill]

It is hard to take this decision

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Дівчинка-лицар:

In the countries that were under the occupation of the USSR, all names were changed to Russian, respectively, and in the world wrote instead of Kyiv - Kiev, instead of the Dnipro - Dnieper, instead of Lviv - Lvov. Now the names have been changed back, but the world has a bad habit of continuing to translate city names into russian and from russian into English. This is done even by Google Translator( But we fight against it!

It's not really "translated from Russian". It's simply the English name for it.
Nobody cares about Naples, Moscow, Prague, Cologne, ... sometime's it's simply what it is. Diffferent languages have different sound patterns that aren't easily repeated by other languages and names are transliterated for easier pronounciation.

[Дівчинка-лицар]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by Дівчинка-лицар:

In the countries that were under the occupation of the USSR, all names were changed to Russian, respectively, and in the world wrote instead of Kyiv - Kiev, instead of the Dnipro - Dnieper, instead of Lviv - Lvov. Now the names have been changed back, but the world has a bad habit of continuing to translate city names into russian and from russian into English. This is done even by Google Translator( But we fight against it!

It's not really "translated from Russian". It's simply the English name for it.
Nobody cares about Naples, Moscow, Prague, Cologne, ... sometime's it's simply what it is. Diffferent languages have different sound patterns that aren't easily repeated by other languages and names are transliterated for easier pronounciation.

"O" easier than "i"?) Its really translate from russian. We have often this problem. We made perfomance from foreigners with right cities names. You can google and see like right.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Дівчинка-лицар:

Originally posted by cinedine:

It's not really "translated from Russian". It's simply the English name for it.
Nobody cares about Naples, Moscow, Prague, Cologne, ... sometime's it's simply what it is. Diffferent languages have different sound patterns that aren't easily repeated by other languages and names are transliterated for easier pronounciation.

"O" easier than "i"?) Its really translate from russian. We have often this problem. We made perfomance from foreigners with right cities names. You can google and see like right.

It's not from Russian. It's the historic name from Polish times.

[JVC]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by Дівчинка-лицар:

"O" easier than "i"?) Its really translate from russian. We have often this problem. We made perfomance from foreigners with right cities names. You can google and see like right.

It's not from Russian. It's the historic name from Polish times.

No, the Polish name is Lwów.

Ukrainian: L'viv, Russian: L'vov, German: Lemberg, Latin: Leopolis

The names database is garbage in many respects. The entries for Denmark are clearly from before 2007.

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by Lazy Dog:

Valve's database for this is so old i'm surprised that Soviet Union is not an option.

Lmao

[cinedine]

Originally posted by JVC:

Originally posted by cinedine:

It's not from Russian. It's the historic name from Polish times.

No, the Polish name is Lwów.

And now transliterate that into Kyrillic and back into English ...

And

Originally posted by Дівчинка-лицар:

"O" easier than "i"?) .

in this case: yes. Polish city names often end in -ów(a/o), is it puts it in line.
Krakow, Rzeszow, Tarnow, Glasgow, Ostrow, ...

City names are a touchy subject and using a specific name is almost always political. Lots of Ukrainian cities got renamed to eliminate referrences to communist names that were used to replace the German occupation names that probably replaced the name of some prior cultural marginalisation of whoever conquered the land.
And sometimes, somewhere down that line a name simply sticks. Especially if it got renamed multiple times in just hundred years.
People over here are still using Danzig and Preßburg instead of Gdansk and Bratislava. And nobody gives a ♥♥♥♥ about Prague being derived from the German Prag instead of Praha. And Beijing is still called Peking by a lot of people.

EDIT:
And to clarify: I don't want to marginalize. But there isn't always malicious intend in using another spelling while using a different language.

[crunchyfrog]

Yeah sadly as others have said, their database is OLD.

Many companies NEVER do databases like this themselves, as it's far easier to buy one or import it. For things like this too there's little reason to update very often either, so that's why this is old.

For years Facebook has shown me to live in Splading Norfolk. That doesn't exist. I live in Spalding, Lincolnshire. Have they ever corrected this? Nope.

So I ghighly doubt Valve will be bothered to do so.

FYI, I would recommend looking up Tom Scott on Youtube as he explains how databases are brouhgt in and the problems they offer - the one on timezones is particularly amusing.

[Дівчинка-лицар]

In fact, after the occupation of Ukraine, when Ukraine was forcibly incorporated into the USSR after the Russo-Ukrainian War of 1917, it changed the names of cities and even people's names to Russian. Lviv-Lvov, Dnipro-Dnepr, to many cities names was add names from tsar Petro and other (DniproPetrovsk), But here it is illogical, because Lviv region is spelled correctly - it is obvious that there should be Lviv, if Lviv, but the city is still indicated Lvov.