While Walter's advice about checking spelling with the Google toolbar can be useful for some languages (I believe it works for English, German, Spanish, French, and Swedish, maybe I missed one?), it won't be useful for everybody else -- what is a Hindi Wikipedian or a Xhosa Wikipedian to do for spellchecking?
Certainly, ispell libraries are a much more appealing option because they support a huge list of languages, and it's not extremely difficult to add more.
Mark
On 19/08/05, Jeffrey McGee jeffamcgee@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/19/05, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/08/05, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
This function can be useful. But now whit the google toolbar for Firefox you can do very easy spell checking. For IE is there also a version. The need is reduced.
In my understanding google toolbar supports only English. Does pspell support other languages? And there is people who don't want to install google toolbar anyway.
Niklas Laxström
Pspell (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pspell.php) uses the GNU Aspell library and Aspell claims to support quite a few languages: http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Supported.html
I have tested my prototype a little with Spanish: http://66.205.125.240/spell/index.php/User_talk:192.168.1.101 But you won't be able to test it since you can't change $wgLanguageCode.
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