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Re: How to chose between different dictionaries for the same language


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  • From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: How to chose between different dictionaries for the same language
  • Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:00:38 +0100 (MET)


> I'm wondering what would be the best way to handle different dictionaries
> for the same language. In german, for instance, there are two different
> dictionaries for two different spellings: the old one, and the reformed
> one which was introduced some 5 years ago. In debian, we have two
> corresponding ispell dictionaries for german: ingerman and iogerman,
> which would be invoked by ispell as "-d ngerman" and "-d ogerman"
> respectively.
>
> Maybe the best way would be to provide a way in the guile-interface
> to define the preferred dictionary for some language.
> Currently I, when building a package for debian, can only hard-code
> one of these two into edit_spell.cc, thus attracting the eternal hate
> of one half of the native german speakers :-(

Wouldn't it be reasonable to consider the two dictionnaries as
different dialects of german, just as we have UK english,
US english, etc.? How is this problem handled in other applications?




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