From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 15:58:09 EDT
I've updated this so that it's closer to the new language list. 65
languages are currently supported, or ~43% of our total count (153, not
counting the "-none-" and duplicate entries). A lot of the missing
languages are leser-known and "exotic" to this American.
If we found an Arabic dictionary, we could support 16 more language
tags. If we found a Chinese one, we'd get 5 more. Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, Hindi, Arabic are the 5 most notably missing languages.
This percentage might look bad at first count, but it covers just about
every dictionary that ispell has and represents the primary languages
spoken by about 2.0 billion people, and these people represent the bulk
of our current user-base. Not bad, IMO. We'll get it better in the
future (if we get those other 5 dictionaries -should they exist- we're
up to about 4.0 billion. All numbers are rough "ballpark" estimates).
Tracking down these missing dictionaries would be a great Project Of The
Week (POW).
Andrew, if you're happy with the work done so far, please close your bug
or update it appropriately to reflect the work that still needs to be
done.
Cheers,
-- Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com>
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