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In article <UMERIN.93Jun4191040@orchid.mse.kyutech.ac.jp>
umerin@mse.kyutech.ac.jp (Masanobu UMEDA) writes:
   I don't know your ispell can correct Japanese.  If your ispell does
   not take account of any asian character sets, the term international
   or world is a bad idea.  I recommend espell, "european ispell" or
   something like that.

Oh, please... It could probably handle Hangul (Korean) just fine, and
certainly a lot of southern and western Asian languages. I'm not sure
how appropriate the name 'spelling checker' would be for Chinese.
What about African, native American, and native Australian languages, or
the languages of various island nations? 'European ispell' is certainly
not inclusive enough.

OK, so by your suggestion, then, the most appropriate name is 'IEFCALSPELL'
which of course stands for 'International (Except for Certain Asian
Languages) Speller'. Or perhaps 'IASPELL', 'International Alphabetic
Speller'.

As a very poor but interested student of Japanese, I find Asian languages
quite interesting and certainly worthy of respect. But I thought 
political correctness had not reached Japan yet?

Michael C. Grant
mcgrant@isl.stanford.edu

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