Re: Dictionary of proper names

"Goran Rakic" <[email protected]>
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This is not possible. For example, we are using transcription in
Serbian language (so it's Копенхаген and Стокхолм) and forms are very
different. It's same with many other languages.

It's not even possible to have a dictionary with names and places in
English included in every other dictionary as some code pages don't
include ASCII/ISO-8859-1 support and word separation rules can be
different then in English.

What's possible is to have separate dictionary with names and places
in English (if we doesn't have that already) so one can check spelling
in two passes.

Bye,
Goran Rakic

On 11/27/06, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Names of places and people are the same in every language.  Even
> though English has its own word for Copenhagen, writing the Danish
> name København in an English text is never really wrong.  And
> Stockholm is the same in almost every language.  So should
> København and Stockholm be part of every dictionary?  Today they
> are.  Or should we try to make a separate, international
> dictionary for names of places and people?  Is this even possible?
> How should suffixes be handled?  The Danish genitive is Københavns
> while the English genitive is København's.  How could this be
> handled?
>
>
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>   Lars Aronsson ([email protected])
>   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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