[debian-freedict] About language codes and wrongly named dictionaries

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hello,

Jimmy O'Regan schrieb am 09.05.2013, 21:52 +0100:
>On 9 May 2013 21:31, Sebastian Humenda <shumenda at gmx.de> wrote:
>> with the database of all dictionaries from
>>   http://www.freedict.org/freedict-database.xml
>> and using the table of ISO language codes which Jimmy posted, I'm now nearly
>> there to translate e. g. lat-deu into „Latin-German”.
>>
>> Two problems arose:
>> 1. Welsh seems to have two codes: cym and wel. I have a solution which
>>   recognizes both, but out of curiosity, why are there two?
>
>That's ISO-639-2: the 'B' code is derived from the English name, the
>'T' code usually from the native name ('Cymraeg'). ISO-639-3 usually
>follows the 'T' code. There's a little more on Wikipedia:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-2#B_and_T_codes
Ah ok, then my solution is fine.

>> 2. There's a dictionary  with 'scr' in it in the XML file which is not in the
>>   SVN. Has a move taken place and the XML file was not updated? @michael,
>>   I guess you have that in a script, could you update the file?
>
>I think 'scr' is the deprecated code for 'Serbo-Croatian', which was
>replaced by 'hbs' ('hrvatski/bosanski/srpski').
And what's the correct way. Request renaming by FreeDict before importing the
dictionaries or applying a Debian-specific patch? The first will delay packaging
further, the latter is another difference to upstream.

Sebastian
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