Re: [native-lang] Status update season!

On 20/12/2006, at 11:18 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:

>> Furthermore, I'd like to start some spellchecker dictionary for  
>> Persian.
>> Any idea where i can find a spec for such dictionaries in oo?
>
> OpenOffice.org currently uses Hunspell.  It's dictionary format is
> compatible with the Myspell used earlier, and very similar to the
> older Aspell and Ispell.  There is a "fa-demo" to download from
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionary
> that contains 332554 words in Persian.  According to the included
> README file, this is the same dictionary as is listed on
> www.aspell.net for GNU Aspell 0.60, maintained by Babak Mahmoudi
> and Edwin Hakopian. The included "fa.aff" file is empty.  Perhaps
> affixes are not applicable to Persian?  I have no idea.
>
> For most languages, there is only one dictionary, maintained by a
> single person or a small team, who produces packages adopted for
> each spell checking software.

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Thankyou for bringing this up, Meelad and Lars. :)

I have noticed that our Vietnamese builds of OpenOffice.org do not  
include a spellchecking dictionary, so we can't use that facility.

There is an existing Aspell dictionary for Vietnamese. I use that  
myself. Can that be used for OpenOffice.org?

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/

Spellchecking in Vietnamese is currently very much limited by the  
word boundaries issue: our language is composed of monosyllabic  
words, so there aren't that many single words which the spellchecker  
can spot as _not_ being words. Correct usage depends on combinations  
of words, as many terms are composed of two words. Defining these  
boundaries is a complex task.

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (call name, Duy), my team leader at our  
GNOME project, is currently developing spellchecking software  
specific to Vietnamese, which we hope will be compatible with  
existing major software, but it's only in the early stages as yet.

So, meanwhile, can we start using our Aspell dictionary? At least it  
spots the worst typos, and as a champion typo-producer, I appreciate  
that. ;)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN