Hello Fujiwara-san. Zemberek and Voikko provide natural language processing (NLP) functionality, which makes Turkish and Finnish spell checker work better. These two languages are very different to English and other European languages. That's why special NLP functionality is needed when doing spell checking. And that's why Zemberek and Voikko engines exist.
It is possible to use simple dictionaries only, but then the results are not as good as when NLP is used. I believe Turkish and Finnish OpenSolaris users would appreciate the two new engines. Jan Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote: > I'm not sure why you need another engines. > > Basically spell engines by applications use Myspell dictionary files. > I checked myspell dictionaries now and it seems Turkey and Finnish > dictionaries are available. > > http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/ku_TR.zip > > > http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/fi_FI.zip > > > > If you proceed the ARC process, I can include the dictionaries in > SUNWmyspell-dictionary-$LANG. > > fujiwara > > Jan Trejbal-san wrote (10/21/08 04:26 AM): >> Hello desktop gurus. >> I am trying to port following spell checking engines to OpenSolaris: >> Zemberek (Turkish): https://zemberek.dev.java.net/ >> Voikko (Finnish): http://voikko.sourceforge.net/ >> >> From Gnome 2.18 on, all JDS/Gnome applications use Enchant wrapper >> library (http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/) to call spell >> checking backend engines (myspell, hunspell, aspell, etc.). >> So, my plan is to compile Zemberek and Voikko on OpenSolaris, place >> bins probably to /usr/share/spell/zemberek|voikko, and make them work >> with Enchant. >> >> Does that sound like a good plan? >> Will JDS appls be able to use Zemberek and Voikko spell checking >> functionality through Enchant? >> >> I am also concerned about current version of Enchant in OpenSolaris - >> 1.3.0 (on 200811 build 99). Unfortunately, that version is not able to >> handle Zemberek & Voikko engines. However, Enchant 1.4.0 and higher >> does support them. >> Do you know when Enchant 1.4.0 or 1.4.2 will be in OpenSolaris? >> >> Thank you, >> Jan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> >
