Quoting thin forx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I'm trying to create a myspell dictionary for akan
> language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_language)
> as part of our localization efforts. so far i've
> managed to get ispell and aspell 0.60 to work to some
> extent (ispell tested with koffice and aspell on the
> command line). the goal for us to get a myspell
> dictionary. the problem we're facing is that the there
> isn't a one specific character set that contains all
> the characters we need (A-Z, &#400; U+0190, &#390;
> U+0186) these two extra characters do not have
> non-continuous unicode (latin extended A and B)

Hi Chris,

Yes, Akan's letters, the capital open o and e are in latin
extended B, small open o and e are in IPA extensions:

http://www.myfonts.com/Language?id=388
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0250.pdf

> 
> with aspell 0.6 i can extend the iso-8859-1 map to
> include other characters. is it possible to do the
> same for myspell.
> i also managed to create a myspell dictionary with the
> TRY string set to A to Z plus those two utf-8
> characters above and it seems to work well with the
> standalone myspell. the charset was set to iso-8859-1
> which is obviously wrong but it didn't seem to matter.
> it was able to flag down misspelled words. if we
> decide to go what we currently have (wrong charset)
> what kind of problems can we expect to experience.

I work on a new version of Myspell, called Hunspell.
I have planned to implement a full Unicode support this summer.

I hope, the only change in syntax of the resource files will be
the possibility of using UTF-8.

Regards,

Laci


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