Subject: Re: localization formats proposal
From: Jared Davis (aiken@clan11.com)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 23:12:01 CDT
> > > Not really since special dictionaries can only
> > *add* words.
> > > Australian English needs to *forbid* words that
> > are legal in
> > > American. "color", "favor", "dialog" and tons of
> > others are
> > > not legal words.
> >
> > Ouch, that's more complicated. I guess the *best*
> > (not easiest)
> > solution here would be to create separate Australian
> > dictionaries.
Maybe a "base dictionary" with the disputed words (colo(u)r, ise/ize, etc)
removed, then additional dictionaries that bring in the remaining words
based on your locale?
In other words, the en-BASE file would contain words that are standard
everywhere, and then the locale-specific extensions would add in the words
for a particular country?
I don't know how viable this is, but maybe it'd work... and it might save
some disk space. Of course, I'm probably just disk-space centered ever
since that whole thesaurus phase... =)
Jared
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