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![]() Most engines response best results if a region is selected, most often a language is also in the properties of a engine and sometimes the language argument is just the language of the UI. Most often choosing a language has a minor effect on the result list. To summarize: Some engines have language codes (e.g. `ca`) in their properties, some have region codes (e.g. `ca-ES`), some have regions and languages in their properties and other engine do not have any language or region support. In the past we generalized *language* over all kind of engines without taking into mind that most engines gave best result when there is a region selected. This *language-centric* view in SearXNG is misleading when we need region-codes to parameterize engine request! This patch replaces the *language-centric* view by a "language / region" view. Conclusions: With regions we can't say any longer that a engine supports *this or that* language, by example: when the user selects 'zh' and a engine supports only region codes like 'zh-TW' or 'zh-CN' we do not what results the user expects / similar with 'en' or 'fr when the engine needs a region tag. - Since it is unclear what the user expects by his language selection, we can't assert a property that says: "supports_selected_language" The feature is replaced in the UI by the wider sense of "language_support", what stands for: The engine has some kind of language support, either by a region tag or by a language tag. - A list of "supported_languages" does not make sense when there are regions responsible for the result of an engine. The "supported_languages" has been removed from the /config URL - The `has_language` test in the `searx/search/checker/impl.py` has been removed since it does not cover engines with region support. If there is a need for such a test we can implement new tests after all engines with language (region) support has been moved to the *supported properites* scheme (see searxng_extra/update/update_languages.py) Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> |
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