automatically abbreviate street names if place is sparse

Question is how to determine how it should be abbreviated. Could you expand ?

Cutting straße to str. works only in german. In French for exemple, you would say "Rue de l'étoile' which can't be easily shotened.

I'd expect something along the lines (trying some buggy pseudo-code)

const char * substitute_trailing_de_at[][2] =
{
    { "strasse", "str."},
    { " Strasse", " Str."},
    { "weg", "w."},    // seen this abbreviation on several printed maps
    { " Weg", " W."},
    { "gasse", "g."},
    { "platz", "pl."},
    { " Platz", " Pl."}
}

if( (0 == strstr(locale, "de" || 
     0 == strstr(locale, "at")  && 
    (maparea == DE || maparea == AT || maparea == CH ))
{
    for( i = 0; i < sizeof something / sizeof somethingelse; i++ )
    {
        if( islaststring(streetname, substitute_trailing_de_at[i][0] ))
        {
           substitute(streetname,substitute_trailing_de_at[i][0],substitute_trailing_de_at[i][1];
           // characters_saved += strlen(substitute_trailing_de_at[i][0]) - strlen substitute_trailing_de_at([i][1]);
        }
    }
}

Duplicate of #43