[Fwd]: Re: [Fwd]: [Aspell-user] Aspell Status Update as of February 12, 2004

I am forwarding relevant portions of Kevin's reply to my earlier
message to this list.

----- Forwarded message from Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> -----

 > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:10:26 -0500 (EST)
 > From: Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]>
 > Subject: Re: [Fwd]: [Aspell-user] Aspell Status Update as of February 12, 2004
 > To: "Mahesh T. Pai" <[email protected]>
 > 
 > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
 > 
 > > Kindly  go through  this.  We  desperately  need a  spell checker  for
 > > Malayalam (at  least, I am not  aware of any), and  Aspell, apart from
 > > being a GNU project, has  the added advantage of being integrated into
 > > several suites,  and even a  partially supported Windows  port exists.
 > > It is  also a drop-in replacement  for Ispell, which  is default spell
 > > checking libray for most applications.
 > > 
 > > However, I *think* Aspell is  yet to support unicode.  Kevin Atkinson,
 > > author of  Aspell is on Bcc;  and people interested  in helping should
 > > contact the aspell-user or aspell-devel [at] gnu dot org lists.
 > 
 > Aspell DOES support Unicode in most places.  The only place it does not is 
 > when it is used as an independent spell checker, and the only reason for 
 > that is I don't know how to use Unicode with curses properly.
 > 


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