Re: [edict-jmdict] jmdict language tags

[Jean-Luc Léger <reiga@****************>]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:25:42AM -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> What is "sp" (seq 1632800)?

that is an old erroneous tag for spanish (es)

> Is "in"=Indonesian right (seq 1040370)? (that what I have 
> in my tables but not sure where it came from but in iso-639, 
> indonesian is "id").  

yes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan
it's from indonesia
(also look at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict_doc.html#IREF11)

> The following are in my database tables (so I think they 
> were used in jmdict sometime in the past) but don't seem 
> to be used now.  Are they in fact no longer used?
> 
> eo	Esperanto  
> uk	Ukrainian
> iw(*)	Hebrew (Iwrith)
> pl	Polish
> bo	Tibetan (Bodskad)
> hi	Hindi
> ur	Urdu
> mn	Mongolian
> kl	Inuit (formerly Eskimo)
> kr	Kanuri
> (*) -- Not in ISO-639-1.
> 

I don't think these have been used in the past
except maybe the hebrew tag.
I have pending entries with hi:, pl:, iw: tags
(and some from afrikaans (af:), persian and hawaian ..)

	JL