Re: [edict-jmdict] jmdict language tags (was: Enhancements to the English translations)

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

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:39:10PM +1000, Jim Breen wrote:
> On 24/04/07, Jean-Luc Leger <reiga@dspnet.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> >  these remind me of some entries which are made of 2 words (or part of) from
> >  different languages. For instance : japanese and english.
> >  that would be great if we could record the separate parts in the database.
> 
> ウレタンゴム (1926050) is a good case of that. It combines the
> German Urethan and the Dutch gom.
> 
> I guess:
> ...
> <lsource xml:lang="de">Urethan</lsource>
> <lsource xml:lang="nl">gom</lsource>
> ....
> 

no. from what was discussed earlier in this thread, that coding means
ウレタンゴム is either from German Urethan _or_ from Dutch gom.

And we should try to add an "abbr" flag in the lsource entity when needed.

	JL