More Tags
Janusz S. Bień
jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl
08 May 2003 07:25:09 +0200
On Mon, 05 May 2003 Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org> wrote:
> So, I'm going through the Web interface, coming up with some more tags
> as I tag packages. Here they are:
[...]
> Language : French
> Language : German
> Language : Polish
> Language : Spanish
> Language : Bulgarian
> Language : Esperanto
> Language : (etc.)
>
> Documentation, tools, data files, that're related to a
> language. Not necessarily the same thing as "Language Support",
> since having a man page in French doesn't make your computer that
> much "Frenchier".
Glad to see the support of my proposal:
On 16 Apr 2003 jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Enrico Zini wrote on debian-devel:
>
[...]
> Let's now consider another example:
>
> `chasen' package contains a Japanese morphological analyser,
> documented in Japanese
>
> `lookup-el' package is a general purpose dictionary lookup tool,
> documented only in Japanese.
>
> I think that the package metadata should distinguished clearly these
> two cases, using e.g. the standard language codes: the language of the
> application domain and the language of the documentation.
Regards
Janusz
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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/