A good explanation of what this package is for can be found in Nathan Fredrickson's blog at http://www.worksintheory.org/archives/2005/march/isocodes. He says: <quote> The ability to list and select dictionaries has been a long requested GtkSpell feature. However one of the missing pieces has been a centralized list of language and country names. I've been hesitant to follow other programs and hardcode a list of known languages as that would quickly become unmanageable for me and for translators. Debian developers have improved the situation by creating an iso-codes package that contains language, country, and currency names as well as translations from the Translation Project. Gnome is considering adding it as a dependency. With some code borrowed from Galeon, I'm already using it with gtkspell3 in CVS. Perhaps there should be a libisocodes with routines for reading the data. To make iso-codes easier to install on Fedora, I created a spec file and RPM packages. </quote> I first discovered the need for this package while trying to compile a development version of epiphany, which now depends upon it. It looks like more projects are going to be depending on this in the future so I'm basically trying to get the ball rolling for getting this in portage. The developer of this project is Alistair McKinstry and this simple ebuild is based upon the latest package currently available in Debian's pool (although the homepage at the "alioth" site falsely implies that no files have been released).
Created attachment 62588 [details] app-text/iso-codes-0.46.ebuild Proposed ebuild: app-text/iso-codes-0.46
Adding gnome herd because this may well have a bearing on future work concerning gnome and gnome-related components.
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