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RE: [Ltru] Extended language tags (long reply)

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Wed, 10 October 2007 18:36 UTC

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Subject: RE: [Ltru] Extended language tags (long reply)
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From: Mark Davis [mailto:mark.davis@icu-project.org]

> If my user searches for Fulah, and does s/he want to get
> Maasina Fulfulde, Adamawa Fulfulde, Pulaar, Central-Eastern
> Niger Fulfulde, and so on, which I have no reason to
> believe that the original person speaks?

The user probably doesn't want all that. But how do you know *what* they want? If they use a generic qualifier in their query, I don't know how you do better than return generic results, in the absence of additional information.


Peter

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