Hi Evan, I used aspell to create a Bengali (an indic language) spell checker (bspeller), and it works fine.
http://www.bengalinux.org/projects/dictionary/bspeller.php As far as I understand, if you can have an 8-bit encoding for a language, then aspell can support it (but don't take my word for it). For the Bengali spell checker the frontend uses utf-8 encoding; however, the aspell dictionary and the interface between aspell library and bspeller uses an 8-bit encoding. Thanks, Taneem Quoting Evan Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I'm curious about Aspell's support for non-European languages. I've > seen at least two projects recently that spell-check Hebrew[1] and > Arabic[2] and neither of them seem to be extensions to Aspell. Could > these projects be folded into Aspell, or would you say that some aspect > of those languages (perhaps the morphology? I don't know how clever > Aspell is or whether it's all in the wordlist) is incompatible with > Aspell's design? > > I'm sorry for the vague question. I'm trying to determine whether I'll > need to target multiple spelling backends simultaneously or whether > Aspell will handle everything... > > [1] http://www.ivrix.org.il/projects/spell-checker/ > [2] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Duali > > -- > Evan Martin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://neugierig.org ----------------------------------------- This e-mail has undergone DECONtamination. http://www.deconference.com http://www.eyetap.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
