More Tags

[Janusz S. Bień]

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/