Ethan Bradford wrote: > Is there an Ispell for Arabic? Do you know how to get to the > source files?
I have no idea if Ispell works for Arabic. I suppose the same dictionary can be used both for aspell and ispell, that's how it works for Swedish. The advantage of aspell (for English) is that it provides better suggestions than ispell for mistyped words. I don't know whether this advantage applies to Swedish, and I was asking whether it does for Arabic. The advantage of ispell, as described by SuSE Linux' RPM packet manager is: "Compared to UNIX spell, it is faster and much easier to use. Ispell can also handle languages other than English." This is like moving from the 1970s into the 1980s. Wow, more languages than English! Who needs that?! Do non-English speakers know how to use computers? As a comparison, aspell is described like this: "GNU Aspell is a spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of coming up with possible suggestions than just about any other spell checker available for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word." There is a Swedish dictionary for ispell, which is also used in aspell. I haven't heard that anybody has adjusted aspell's sound matching system for Swedish, or produced any test suite based on statistics from common misspellings, to evaluate whether aspell for Swedish is any better than ispell for Swedish. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
