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Bug#178321: ITP: aspell-uk -- The Ukrainian dictionary for GNU Aspell



Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:

> Er... so take it up with the ISO standard?

It's got nothing to do with ISO.

> 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.

Again it's not about <ll> vs <cc>; I don't care what is used in place
of "uk" as long as it's not "uk".  What exactly is wrong with "ukr"
for instance?

> 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"?

Err, yes.  I certainly would.  Why on earth wouldn't they?  There's
precedent for British dictionaries after all (ibritish).

-- 
James



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