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-# This file contains a list of stemmers to include in the distribution.
-# The format is a set of space separated lines - on each line:
-#  First item is name of stemmer.
-#  Second item is comma separated list of character sets.
-#  Third item is comma separated list of names to refer to the stemmer by.
-#
-# Lines starting with a #, or blank lines, are ignored.
-
-# List all the main algorithms for each language, in UTF-8, and also with
-# the most commonly used encoding.
-
-arabic          UTF_8                   arabic,ar,ara
-armenian        UTF_8                   armenian,hy,hye,arm
-basque          UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        basque,eu,eus,baq
-catalan         UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        catalan,ca,cat
-danish          UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        danish,da,dan
-dutch           UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        dutch,nl,dut,nld
-english         UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        english,en,eng
-estonian        UTF_8                   estonian,et,est
-finnish         UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        finnish,fi,fin
-french          UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        french,fr,fre,fra
-german          UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        german,de,ger,deu
-greek           UTF_8                   greek,el,gre,ell
-hindi           UTF_8                   hindi,hi,hin
-hungarian       UTF_8,ISO_8859_2        hungarian,hu,hun
-indonesian      UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        indonesian,id,ind
-irish           UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        irish,ga,gle
-italian         UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        italian,it,ita
-lithuanian      UTF_8                   lithuanian,lt,lit
-nepali          UTF_8                   nepali,ne,nep
-norwegian       UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        norwegian,no,nor
-portuguese      UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        portuguese,pt,por
-romanian        UTF_8                   romanian,ro,rum,ron
-russian         UTF_8,KOI8_R            russian,ru,rus
-serbian         UTF_8                   serbian,sr,srp
-spanish         UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        spanish,es,esl,spa
-swedish         UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        swedish,sv,swe
-tamil           UTF_8                   tamil,ta,tam
-turkish         UTF_8                   turkish,tr,tur
-yiddish         UTF_8                   yiddish,yi,yid
-
-# Also include the traditional porter algorithm for english.
-# The porter algorithm is included in the libstemmer distribution to assist
-# with backwards compatibility, but for new systems the english algorithm
-# should be used in preference.
-porter          UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        porter			english
-
-# Some other stemmers in the snowball project are not included in the standard
-# distribution. To compile a libstemmer with them in, add them to this list,
-# and regenerate the distribution. (You will need a full source checkout for
-# this.) They are included in the snowball website as curiosities, but are not
-# intended for general use, and use of them is is not fully supported.  These
-# algorithms are:
-#
-# kraaij_pohlmann  - This is a different dutch stemmer.
-#kraaij_pohlmann  UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        kraaij_pohlmann	dutch
-#
-# lovins           - This is an english stemmer, but fairly outdated, and
-#                    only really applicable to a restricted type of input text
-#                    (keywords in academic publications).
-#lovins           UTF_8,ISO_8859_1        lovins		english