Re: aspell spell checkers

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

I've moved this thread to 'developer' (from 'doc') as it seems more fitting.

--- Youcef Rabah Rahal <y dot rahal at gmail dot com> wrote:
> FYI
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Pablo Saratxaga <pablo at mandrakesoft dot com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:48:22 +0100
> To: cooker-i18n <cooker-i18n at linux-mandrake dot com>
> 
> Probably some of you already noticed; but with the new version of
> aspell spell checker (included in 10.1) the range of covered languages
> increased a lot, and it is no longer limited to languages in latin1
> encoding but handles unicode as well (the only limitation being that
> the total number of characters be less than 255, which is satisfied by
> most languages, even by korean in decomposed letters form.
>
[snip snip]
>
> Aspell not only support more languages and utf-8, but it uses better
> algorithms, making better suggestions, it can be told about phonetic
> rules (that makes a big improvement for phonetic typos), and it learn
> from your corrections, so when a same error is encountered later,
> the suggestions given are even better.

I'm most certainly speaking out of turn here knowing so little about
the topic (this is most certainly Elzubeir's domain), but it does
sound like it might be worth while to contact aspell's author yet
again to see if anything can be salvaged in order to add Arabic to
the list of supported languages.  I would guess that aspell's author
might be more open-minded now to actually consider some of Duali's
functionality and algorithms.

Elzubeir, could you probe him on our requirements and see if enough
hooks exist for us to actually add-in the support ?

Just thinking out loud since this is such an important topic for so
many people.

Salam & Thanks.

 - Nadim



		
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