Re: localization formats proposal

[Andrew Dunbar]

 --- Karl Ove Hufthammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
on 18 jul 2001 05:46:12, Andrew Dunbar
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 
> 
> > Not really since special dictionaries can only
> *add* words. 
> > Australian English needs to *forbid* words that
> are legal in
> > American.  "color", "favor", "dialog" and tons of
> others are
> > not legal words.
> 
> Ouch, that's more complicated. I guess the *best*
> (not easiest) 
> solution here would be to create separate Australian
> dictionaries.

This is the best solution in the long-run, but in the
mean-time (which might be a long time) 99.99% of us
would be extremely happy to have a "Just Works" way
of en-AU/en-IE/en-NZ/etc documents being spellchecked
with an en-GB dictionary.  We'd love it (:

Andrew Dunbar.

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