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| author | Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io> | 2020-11-24 14:54:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io> | 2020-11-24 18:54:45 +0100 |
| commit | b051b18490be8002cdd3a007a786a07d991b8b6b (patch) | |
| tree | c2df48f9006f041ef1482079ffe3d9e363756ab9 /util | |
| parent | 115955069f050d2549d0a341460b1473fd383db7 (diff) | |
Add a note explaining what a macrolanguage is
The comments in enumdata.py indicating macrolanguages meant nothing to
me, until I stumbled on a reference that lead me to ISO 639's usage of
the term. Add a minimal explanation to save such confusion for others.
Change-Id: Ia1d849d93a1d94c04c8c461debdecf879e9a7db5
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'util')
| -rw-r--r-- | util/locale_database/enumdata.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/util/locale_database/enumdata.py b/util/locale_database/enumdata.py index f20ac974ee..ab0f4a3eae 100644 --- a/util/locale_database/enumdata.py +++ b/util/locale_database/enumdata.py @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ # are offset with a blank line, below. After doing that, regenerate # locale data as usual; this will cause a binary-incompatible change. +# Note on "macrolanguage" comments: see "ISO 639 macrolanguage" on +# Wikipedia. A "macrolanguage" is (loosely-speaking) a group of +# languages so closely related to one another that they could also be +# regarded as divergent dialects of the macrolanguage. + language_list = { 0: ("AnyLanguage", " "), 1: ("C", " "), |