On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 14:10, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > I searched my mailbox and found some brief discussion. Back then Aspell > lacked Affix support or support for Unicode. This has now changed. >
Excellent ;) > Aspell supports Unicode, but internally it is still 8-bit. So the first > order of business is to establish an internal encoding. Is iso-8859-6 > sufficient? If not a new character set can be made up. You can use up to > 210 characters (128 upper 8-bit, 30 control, 52 Latin letters). If you > could tell me what parts of the Unicode block 0600-06FF Arabic needs for > words I can create a mapping for you. > The ISO 8859-6 [1] is sufficient for internal storage, so no 'special' mapping is necessary. > OK. That looks a lot like Aspell affix code. I believe Aspell can now > handle it. However the affix data needs to be converted into a single > Affix file. See > http://aspell.sourceforge.net/devel-doc/man/Affix-Compression.html. > I just had a look at that. This looks a _lot_ of manual work on my side at least. To give you a little background about Arabic. Have a look at the Duali wiki page [1] to see how the dictionary data is currently used -- and I am open to suggestions. Regards, Mohammed Elzubeir [1] http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Duali _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
