Re: localization formats proposal

[Martin Sevior]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar wrote:

>  --- 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 (:

When you make the en-NZ dictionary make sure you include the local
spelling for Fsh and Chps.

Cheers :-)


Martin