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

[Kevin Atkinson]

> 2007/7/10, Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden>:
> > There is no need.  You can use some of the lower characters for these code
> > points.  You may use the control characters 01-0F and 11-1F are even the
> > latin letters.  In particular the following characters may be remapped.
> >
> >    01-0F (  1- 15) # Control characters
> >    11-1F ( 17- 31) # Control characters
> >    41-5A ( 65- 90) # Uppercase Latin alphabet
> >    61-7A ( 97-122) # Lowercase Latin alphabet
> >    80-FF (128-255)
>
> If I understood it correctly, these characters are also allowed in 
> Malayalam. So my question is why can't we allow unicode special 
> characters (zwj,zwnj,zws) also in Malayalam, in the same way these 
> control characters and latin characters are allowed? In that case there 
> won't be any need for remapping also.

The mapping is for Aspell's internal encoding only.  Thus, the issue is 
not if they are allowed in Malayalam but if they can appear in a Malayalam 
word.  The control characters almost certainly fall in that category. 
Unless you want to allow Laten words than so do the laten letters. 
characters not included in the mapping can still appear in Malayalam 
text as Aspell will just treat them as whitespace.