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Ensure non-ascii form of names are present (e.g. umlauts, as in Gurbantünggüt desert) #30

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@cmungall

Searching OLS for Gurbantünggüt desert returns no results

The term in GAZ is "Gurbantunggut Desert"

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/gaz/terms?iri=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.obolibrary.org%2Fobo%2FGAZ_00114666

Perhaps the OLS should be enhanced to better be able to search on umlauts

But either way the official name seems to have umlauts, GAZ should have them

I imagine there were issues with umlauts in obo-edit

We could look to correcting these automatically once wikidata xrefs are done, as WP/WD has the formal name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbant%C3%BCngg%C3%BCt_Desert

Random fact:

t is in this desert that the remotest point of land from any sea is located. According to some calculations, the precise point is at 46°16.8′N 86°40.2′E. It was pinpointed and reached on 27 June 1986 by British explorers Nicholas Crane and Richard Crane; the location was described as being in the Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert. This position is over 2,600 kilometers (1,600 mi) from the nearest coastline.[5]

It would be neat to have this point in GAZ but we have no use case for this...

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