Bug#178321: ITP: aspell-uk -- The Ukrainian dictionary for GNU Aspell

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:24:14PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:08:39PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> 
> >  > * Package name    : aspell-uk
> 
> >  uk is the ISO abbreviation for "United Kingdom", is't it?  Why don't
> >  you use the ISO abbreviation for Ukrainia ("ua" or "ukr")?
> 
> Because dictionaries are for *languages*, not for countries, so it's
> natural to use the ISO abbreviation for the language, which is 'uk'?

*blink* who cares?  The point is that "uk" is needlessly confusing.

-- 
James