On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote: > 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 thanks. > > 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. Well. Maybe you can automate it. I am not willing to add special code for Arabic if the current code is sufficient. Sorry. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
