Cyril Slobin wrote:

> On 4/20/07, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Please take the existing $VIMRUNTIME/spell/eo/main.aap and modify it a
> > bit to build the .spl file.  This can't be very difficult, you would
> > mostly use the command you type manually.
> 
> OK, I'll try this. Probably tomorrow.

Good.

> > What is strange is that myspell uses eo_l3 and you have eo_EO and eo_UX.
> > Why two regions?
> 
> Esperanto language uses some letters from Latin3 character set. Of
> course, they are in Unicode too. But during half-century in
> ASCII-based world there was established some conventions for
> transcribing these letters in pure ASCII. There are still some
> disagreements which one is most popular, or most standard, or most
> suitable, but I believe that "Cxirkaux"-convention is most widely used
> (no, I can't prove this with statistics). The convention is named
> "Cxirkaux" after transcription of the word "Ĉirkaŭ" (I hope you have
> an appropriate font installed to read this). It is handy to be able to
> check Esperanto text in both modes (or choose any one of two).
> Probably to make two files -- eo.ascii.spl and eo.utf-8.spl -- will be
> theoretically more pure, but my solution allows to switch between two
> modes fast.

OK.  So when the user does ":set spl=eo_eo" he still gets the "pure"
version?  It's important that the user has a choice of what words he
wants to accept.

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