-----Original Message----- >From: Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]> >Sent: Jul 9, 2011 9:46 AM >To: "Indian Linux group ," <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Indlinux-group] Aspell Hindi spellchecker, in Gedit > >Spellcheck algorithms should detect the languages by themself. >Detecting the language can done inside the spellchecker itself or >external editor applications can pass the detected language as the >input argument to the spellchecker. >A text with English and Hindi(or other indian language) is a trivial >usecase. If text editors are not supporting the language detection >based spellchecking, we need to fix it. > >KDE4 comes with a spellchecker named Sonnet[1]. It can work with >hunspell and aspell. It does this language detection. In the initial >days of KDE4 it broke the Indic spellcheck completely[2]. But later >fixed. But I missed to notice the language detection in latest >version(I need to try again). > >Gedit or any other text editors should do this language detection and >should switch the dictionaries dynamically. I had written about this >in 2008.[3] > >By using the silpa project's apis[4], I have written an online >spellchecker which can do spellcheck even if the input text is a mix >of English and Indian languages. You can try it here >http://thottingal.in/projects/spellchecker/ > > >[1] http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/59963 >[2] >http://thottingal.in/blog/2008/11/30/kde-spellchecker-not-working-for-indian-languages/ >[3] http://thottingal.in/blog/2008/11/13/language-detection-and-spellcheckers/ >[4] http://silpa.org.in >
Santhosh ji, I very much appreciate your above thoughts, detailing how spellchecking multiple languages in a single document should be a routine matter and should be taken care of by either the spellchecker itself or the application in which it is used. I guess my question is, what can be done then to make that happen using gedit and Aspell in Ubuntu. I went to see your online spellchecker-- looks very interesting. For me though, I do need the setup I currently have because the word-list I use has been developed over the course of several years' work, for the documents I write. Perhaps you have seen the reply of the Aspell developer to our queries. He does not think it a trivial matter, but rather considers it to be something not possible to achieve at the current time. So I'm wondering what you can suggest as a solution. Gedit does not seem to "do this language detection and switch the dictionaries dynamically". If it does have such capability, could you guide me as to how I can make it happen. Many thanks, Swarup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
