On 7/2/07, Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi. I do not fully understand the issue as I do know very little about Malayalam. Can you please explain it to to me or give me a link that does.
Dear Kevin, I will explain the problem for more clarity * The u-mlym.txt in the aspell-ml package contains the following entry 0x80..0xFF = U+0D00..U+0D7F This is based on the fact that the range of Unicode for Malayalam U+0D00..U+0D7F. * But Malayalam scripts use U+200C and U+200D for the representation of alphabets named "chillus" and for controlling the formation of conjucts.Sometimes ZWS (U+200B) is also present the text. * So if we use the existing u-mlym.txt , aspell will reject the Malayalam words with ZWJ and ZWNJ * One workaround solution for this is using unused points in the Malayalam range. But this will cause problems in future if that code points are used for some other purposes. * A unicode review is under discussion to assign unicode points for chillus. At that point our problem will get solved. But unicode will keep the old way of representing chillus using zwj for backward compatibility. So problem will again remain the same. So please suggest a good solution, so that I can prepare a Aspell dictionary for Malayalam. Let us know if you want a sample Malayalam word list. I could not understand the "private use area" solution you suggested. Can you please explain it? Thanks Santhosh Thottingal _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list Aspell-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
