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>>> Kevin Atkinson 01/23/02 04:46AM wrote
>>Sorry for not responding. When people tend to ask hard
questions I tend
>>to mark the post as important with the hope I will get back to it. >>Unfortunately I don't always. BTW, I prefer these type of things get >>posted to the mailing list as it will create a public recorded of our >>conversation. Ah, so it is a hard question ;) At least I wouldn't feel bad for not
understanding
things then ;)
> Using 8-bit characters internally as far Arabic is concerned is not a > problem, although you would gain a lot more accuracy by considering > double-width characters. >>How is that? Hrmm.. I take that back, I wasn't thinking ;) The ISO8859-6 charset is
completely
sufficient for internal storage, but not enough to
display.
>>Are you talking in terms of affix compression? Well, I am not sure how much affix compression helps with Arabic. So let me
give
an example and you can tell me (since I am a little confused about that as
well).
Let's take a verb root: ktb —> pronounced 'kataba'
k = root letter 1
t = root letter 2
b = root letter 3
In Arabic, to represent a 3-letter verb (most common, quad-lettered root
verbs are
rare), we symbolize them with 'FEH','AIN','LAM' (pronounced fa3al) [where
the 3 is
the ain, excuse my not-so-professional transliteration].
Derived from 'ktb' are many words, like:
mktb (prnounced 'maktab') —> represented as 'mf3l'
so far so good.. only adding a prefix.
ktabT (pronounced 'kitaba' — where T is a 'TEH MARBOOTA') —> represented
as 'f3ala'
(pronounced as 'fi3ala')
That adds an 'ALEF' (a) to the middle of the root verb as well as a 'TEH
MARBOOTA' (suffix).
And the list goes on and on ;) Only for one verb. Most of the Arabic
language is derived from
root verbs as this, and that is what makes it such a beautiful language
(yet, so complex
when computerized) ;) Words like, office, book, writer, library, etc. are
all derived from 'ktb'.
My question is, how does the affix compression come to play here?
>>OK. You got my attention ;) Great, because I will need a lot of help ;) But I am very motivated and
will spend hours upon
hours to get this working ;)
>>The current released version of Aspell/Pspell is now dead as far as >>development is concerned all of the new development is talking please on >>the "New Aspell" which can be found at http://aspell.net/. Browse the >>announcement archive for more information as I have not set up a real web >>page yet and what is currently there is not up to date. I see. It would be nice to kill the other pages or simply re-direct to
aspell.net.. then
again, I found the right place, others can search <evil grin>
Thanks
Mohammed Elzubeir |