On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 07:34:01PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> > > 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.
Er... so take it up with the ISO standard? Having twenty packages named
using a standard aspell-<ll>, and one package named 'aspell-<cc>' seems
more confusing to me, particularly if you're a user who *needs* the
package in question and consequently are likely to know what the
language code is.
Are you really suggesting that people are going to look at 'aspell-uk'
and think "Oh, good, just what I needed, a dictionary of words specific
to Britain"?
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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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