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When searching on osm.org, then there is a preference for places in the map view that is currently visible. The preference is for what you are looking at, not for where you physically are. Nominatim never gets any information about your current location. The catch here is that the preference is rather weak. Nominatim will prefer full matches in name tags over the viewbox any time. It also doesn’t know about “KFC” == “Kentucky Fried Chicken” unless it is tagged this way.
In the long run, I think that brand:wikidata is indeed the way to go to make sure you can type ‘KFC’ and find the location in Tokyo without having to add translations for all languages. So my recommendation would be: set ‘name’ to whatever is the locally most used variant and add ‘brand:wikidata’.
If you are interested in seeing support for brand:wikidata in Nominatim rather sooner than later: this is a topic somebody with reasonable programming experience (preferably in Python) can help out with. Please open an issue in Github to ask for technical details.
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