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| author | Vijay Marcel <vijaymarcel@outlook.com> | 2023-09-23 10:11:04 +0900 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2023-09-23 11:33:36 +0700 |
| commit | 1dfd1fdd29efeedb38355958c66d2b1b13eb4120 (patch) | |
| tree | e66f53cf4083f74a88c52a40ccf5c90dbf85daae /python/python3-language-data/README | |
| parent | 3702846710405d29cfda5c56a1280759c6274480 (diff) | |
python/python3-language-data: Added (langcodes supplement).
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clemons <andrew.clemons@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/python/python3-language-data/README b/python/python3-language-data/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..01ae3400bd --- /dev/null +++ b/python/python3-language-data/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +language-data is a supplement to the langcodes module for +working with standardized codes for human languages. It stores +the more bulky and hard-to-index data about languages, particularly +what they are named in various languages. + +For example, this stores the data that tell you that +the code "en" means "English" in English, or that +"francés" is the Spanish (es) name for French (fr). + +The functions and test cases for working with this data are +in langcodes, because working with the data correctly requires +parsing language codes. + +The data included in this package is: + +* The names of various languages, in various languages +* The estimated population that speaks each language +* The estimated population that writes each language + +These are all extracted from the Unicode CLDR data package,version 40 +plus a few additional language names that fill in gaps in CLDR. |