Salam, I'm forwarding your mail to our Developer list in case someone is interested.
- Ossama Khayat Arabic N/L Lead --- Christian Lohmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Laurent, *, > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 04:44:17PM +0200, Laurent Godard wrote: > > > > I've been asked for an arabic spellchecker inside OOo > > it appears that nothing is available > > > > Do someone have informations if something is on the rails, if a > > MySpell/Aspell directory is available and be used aso > > I think the problem is to find a suitable algorithm to form the words. > An arabic (I think it there is similar problems with hebrew) dictionary > list would currently have to contain all possible forms of a word (or at > least a big deal of them). myspell only works with prefixes/suffixes > wich is not suitable for arabic. (Please correct me when I'm writing > nonsense here) > > But this is no reason that there could not be an arabic dictionary-file. > It just would be bigger... > > A quick search at google reveiled > http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=duali > > an arabic spellchecker that uses a different affix-format but that could > serve as a base for a myspell-compatible dictionary. > > Their cvs also contains a directory "openoffice" - maybe they're already > working on integrating the spell-checker.. [...] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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