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Re: How to create dictionary and spell checker for my locale language (Malay) ?

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On Mi, 23 iun 21, 11:53:47, Robbi Nespu wrote:
> Hello Debian!
> 
> TLDR; How I can generate my own dictionary and spell checker file?

Try asking on debian-i18n.
 
> I from Malaysia, we use Malay (Bahasa Melayu) as our primary language but we
> don't mind using English for user-interface of software and communication. I
> think most of us are comfortable with English because direct Malays
> translation maybe awkward a bits but of course I encourage Malays (Ms)
> translation (I do translation too, btw).

Yes, this is a challenge for other languages too (speaking as a 
translator myself).

> That is OK for user-interface but when comes to document such as
> dissertation, paperwork, report which we use word-processing such as
> LibreOffice and so..we really want dictionary and spellchecker to validate
> what we typed and fix typos right away..
> 
> Checking around, I found there is few contribution made by some people but
> that distribute dictionary and affix file, but it not been update quite long
> time.
> 
> I wonder how their build and test the files? It must be using some tools. I
> contacted them to ask, but not getting response..could be their not use the
> email anymore or already left this world.

Once you figure out how this works you might want to take over upstream 
development, i.e. put the sources on Gitlab or similar and invite other 
Malay speakers / translators to submit words to the dictionary.

> On my research, I found most of people using Myspell long time ago, and
> mostly now are using Hunspell and there is new tool called Nuspell too, but
> I don't understand how to use it. Where you I put my new keyword? Can anyone
> guide me? Correct me if this is not the tool for what I am looking for.

As far as I recall Myspell was used by OpenOffice.org, not sure what 
LibreOffice is using now.

And there's also aspell, and vim's own format, and probably others I 
forgot about.

    https://xkcd.com/927/

As far as I recall there are tools to convert between some formats 
(possibly only one way), so it should be possible to have the "source" 
dictionary in one format and generate all other formats from it (if 
still needed / in use).

Hope this helps,
Andrei
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How to create dictionary and spell checker for my locale language  (Malay) ? Robbi Nespu <robbinespu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 06:00 +0200
  Re: How to create dictionary and spell checker for my locale  language (Malay) ? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 06:20 +0200
    Re: How to create dictionary and spell checker for my locale language  (Malay) ? Robbi Nespu <robbinespu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 10:00 +0200

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