On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 16:23 +0000, Richard Wordingham wrote: > As I understand it, the lack of a usable Thai spell-checker for > LibreOffice (unlike, say, a Khmer spell-checker) is due to the Thai > break iterator.
In common with many, I know nothing about Thai ;-) but my friend Tim does - quite possibly he can help you ? (or do you know each other already) ? Thanks ! Michael [ who abnormally leaves the context intact for Tim ;-] > (I had expected Thai and Khmer to face similar > problems, for neither has a visible word separator and syllable > boundaries are often unclear in both.) Tagging Thai script text as > Khmer does not work (at least, not in Version 3.4.5); the word > boundaries are still determined by the Thai break iterator. > > Is it possible to create an experimental alternative to the Thai > break iterator that can be shared with other people as a LibreOffice > extension? I would be prepared to routinely use U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE > (ZWSP) to separate words in the Thai script, but I suspect Thais would > not. Also, I can seem my first useful version fouling up the > rendering of pre-existing text. I can't work out how to create a break > iterator as an *extension*. Could someone please advise me how, e.g. by > pointing to the documentation or an example. I can find documentation > for *publishing* an extension, but that does not address *creating* an > extension. > > Richard. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice