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Article #12231Re: Ideas for renaming non-GNU ispell
From: Helmer Aslaksen
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1993 02:19
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1993 02:19
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Masanobu UMEDA (umerin@mse.kyutech.ac.jp) wrote: > 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. > -- > Masanobu UMEDA > umerin@mse.kyutech.ac.jp > Faculty of Computer Science and System Engineering > Kyushu Institute of Technology I think Mr Umeda should give us a little lecture on exaclty what an Asian spelling checker is supposed to do. I simply don't understand what a Chinese spelling checker could do, and I would think that the need for a spelling checker in modern Japanese is pretty minimal. And why do you object to international? I would say that any program that could handle more than one language could claim to be international, but it seems that Mr Umeda thinks that only programs that can handle HIS language deserve to be called international. Isn't that a little bit cahuvinistic? -- Helmer Aslaksen Department of Mathematics National University of Singapore Singapore 0511 Republic of Singapore mathelmr@nusunix.nus.sg
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