Re: Arabic Support For Aspell

[Kevin Atkinson <kevin at atkinson dot dhs dot org>]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 14:10, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> 
> > I searched my mailbox and found some brief discussion.  Back then Aspell
> > lacked Affix support or support for Unicode.  This has now changed.
> > 
> 
> Excellent ;)
> 
> > Aspell supports Unicode, but internally it is still 8-bit.  So the first 
> > order of business is to establish an internal encoding.  Is iso-8859-6 
> > sufficient?  If not a new character set can be made up.  You can use up to 
> > 210 characters (128 upper 8-bit, 30 control, 52 Latin letters).   If you 
> > could tell me what parts of the Unicode block 0600-06FF Arabic needs for 
> > words I can create a mapping for you.
> > 
> 
> The ISO 8859-6 [1] is sufficient for internal storage, so no 'special'
> mapping is necessary.

Ok thanks.

> > OK.  That looks a lot like Aspell affix code.  I believe Aspell can now 
> > handle it.  However the affix data needs to be converted into a single 
> > Affix file.  See 
> > http://aspell.sourceforge.net/devel-doc/man/Affix-Compression.html.
> 
> I just had a look at that. This looks a _lot_ of manual work on my side
> at least. To give you a little background about Arabic. Have a look at
> the Duali wiki page [1] to see how the dictionary data is currently used
> -- and I am open to suggestions.

Well.  Maybe you can automate it.  I am not willing to add special code 
for Arabic if the current code is sufficient.  Sorry.

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