Re: [edict-jmdict] jmdict language tags

["Francis Bond" <bond@********>]

G'day,

> [I have a longer response in this thread coming but
> meanwhile...]

I too have something to say about gloss tags, but am still reworking
in it.  Meanwhile, ...

> I just reviewed the language tags currently in use in
> jmdict with a view to cleaning up the tags in my database
> tables and had some questions...

I am falling in love with the database.  While we are at it, if we are
cleaning up the language codes, should we take the plunge and go to
ISO-639-3 which uses three letter codes and includes both ain: Ainu
(Japan) and ryu (Central Okinawan)?

The standard is described at: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/default.asp

They have a mapping from the  two letter codes:
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/iso-639-3_20070323.tab

I think it is one-to-many, but I would be happy to arbitrarily choose
defaults (^_^).



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Francis Bond <http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/>
NICT Computational Linguistics Group