I am looking for the appropriate field to let package authors to declare the pkg documentation language for spell checkers. The most important case is to specify a preference between "en-US" or "en-GB" which can be used by the hunspell or spelling pkg to select the appropriate dictionary.
WRE defines the "Language" field for documentation language, but from the current description it seems restricted to 2 or 3 letter ISO-639 codes such as "en" or "eng". WRE also mentions rfc-5646, which refers to ISO 3166-1 for region/country subtags but it is unclear if these are allowed in the field? Spell checking libraries (e.g. myspell/hunspell) typically use locale-like language names to identify the appropriate dictionary such as "en_GB" or "de_AT", see for example [1,2]. Merely specifying "en" or "de" is ambiguous to the spell checker. I was wondering if the WRE definition of the "Language" field could allow for this? [1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/hunspell-en/contents/ [2] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/hunspell-en-gb ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel