Re: [aspell-devel] [aspell #336454] Aspell Malayalam

[Praveen A]

2007/7/10, Mahesh T. Pai <address@hidden>:
> Gora Mohanty said on Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:01:32PM +0530,:
>
>  > Even with remapping ZWJ/ZWNJ to which ever characters, I still get
>  > an error when trying to make the dictionary. There are messages about:
>  > "... The character '‍' (U+200D) may not appear in the middle of a
>  > word. Skipping word."
>  > and similarly for U+200C. It seems like these might be hard-coded. Am
>  > checking further.
>
> This  is how the  Unicode standard  expects implementations  to behave
> when it comes to zw[n]j.

I don't understand. Are you saying all the applications which support
ZW[N]J in the middle of a word are incorrect implementations? If we
can have Latin and control characters in Malayalam why can't we have
ZW[N]J? Is it because only Malayalam needs it? I think there are other
languages like Persian depending on it.

> Since the chillus are on the way  to be encoded, why dont we wait till
> the proper standards come out?

I don't think that is the right way, even if chillus get encoded we
need to support backward compatibility.

> And it  is precisely  due to  the zw[n]j problem  that I  have stopped
> working on Malayalam l10n. In fact,  I had got an elementary word list
> to complie,  but I conciously omitted  all words with  zw[n]j from the
> list, and it worked.

If there could be a way to allow ZW[N]J in Malayalam this issue can be
solved. Lets think about upcoming issues when that comes.

Cheers
Praveen
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