Jamie writes:
The Sword config file contains an ISO language code. Is anyone
able to tell
me what this gets used for (and more specifically, whether there
is any
requirement as to whether this should be a 2-character code or a
3-character
one)?
I not have much knowledge of this, but after a quick look at the
source code, I saw the ISO language code is used by the
transliteration filter.
ISO language code is also used by the Xapian search engine, I
suppose we can't search Chinese or Hebrew or English texts the
same way. See: https://xapian.org/docs/stemming.html
And if I recall correctly, ISO language code is used in Lucene
searches by JSword.
(In fact I see IANA now have a new registry of codes which
supersedes the
2-char and 3-char lists, but it looks as though this merely
mandates the use
of the old 2-character codes where available, and 3-character
otherwise.)
Is there a benefit over the SIL database?
SIL International is the registration authority for ISO-639-3.
"SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of
Linguistics) is a Christian non-profit organization, whose main
purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially
those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic
knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into
local languages, and aid minority language development."
-- Dom
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