From 6d782539d50070014440023188f4bc7adecb5aef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Steeg <steeg@hbz-nrw.de>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:18:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add paragraph on multi-lingual reconciliation candidates
 (#138)

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 1.0-draft/index.html | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/1.0-draft/index.html b/1.0-draft/index.html
index 5ef775e..cebfb4d 100644
--- a/1.0-draft/index.html
+++ b/1.0-draft/index.html
@@ -579,6 +579,10 @@ <h3>Reconciliation Query Responses</h3>
             <dd>A boolean matching decision, which indicates whether the service considers this candidate good enough to be chosen as a correct match.</dd>
           </dl>
         </p>
+        <p>
+          To propose multi-lingual candidates to the client, the reconciliation service MAY return multiple candidates with identical <code>id</code>, but different names, <a href="#text-processing-language">text processing languages</a> or <a href="#text-direction">text directions</a>.
+          The client MAY render these candidates as a single entity, but SHOULD include details from all candidates, so users can comprehend why the entity is being proposed.
+        </p>
         <p>
           A <dfn>matching feature</dfn> is a numerical or boolean value which can be used to determine how likely it is for the candidate to be the correct entity. It contains the following fields:
           <dl>