Kaixo!
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:46:08PM -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:
Certainly, ispell libraries are a much more appealing
option because
they support a huge list of languages, and it's not extremely
difficult to add more.
I almost agree; only a remark: ispell is now obsolete, it has been
superseeded with aspell, which fully supports utf-8 and a lot more
languages (as long as the language uses only, or can be decomposed
into, up to 210 different elements; that is the case of korean,
even if encoding of korean uses several thousands precombined characters;
it can be decomposed in basic letters for the spell checking; a korean
aspell dictionnary has however yet to be written)
There are some on-line php interfaces that use aspell on the server
to spell check some text trough a web interface; so it could indeed
be added to the wikipedia, and it may be usefull; but for heavy traffic
wikipedias it may also be a serious performance problem if it is used
a lot...
There are dictionnaries for aspell for 76 different languages, and of
course more can be added; look at:
http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Supported.html
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