Re: [Aspell-user] Configuring spell check in mult language documents

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Swarup wrote:

> I note the following question and reply, posted previously on this list:
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> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
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> > How to configure aspell to check  multiple languages in same document?
>
> I'm afraid you can't. It is a long standing feature request that might
> get implemented someday. Unfortunately, it is not a straightforward
> task.
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> Still, even if checking multiple languages in the same document remains
> too formidable a task at this time, how about getting the spellchecker
> to ignore words in a different script? If it would stop underlining all
> the English words when I am spellchecking Hindi, that would give
> tremendous relief.

A lot of it depends on how the application uses Aspell.  If it tokenizes 
the words itself, than Aspell will always return false when it calls 
the "check" method on a word that contains foreign characters.

If Aspell did the tokenizing, then it depends on how the language is 
configured.  If its a Latin based language than all non-Latin words will 
be skipped.  If its a non-Latin based language than Latin word may or may 
not be skipped depending on if Latin letters are configured to be accepted 
as word characters, which depends on the charset used.  Changing the 
language configuration is doable but will take a bit of work.

> So would the algorithm for getting aspell to ignore latin script be
> different from getting it to spellcheck multiple languages
> simultaneously?

Its is fairly simple task to get the "check" method to simply accept words 
that don't contain any letter characters.  However, the language needs to 
be correctly configured (see above).  Your welcome to file a feature 
request (if there is not one already).