[Hamara-devel] indian english spell checker in hamara ?

[Vikas Tara]

On 23/11/15 18:16, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting shirish (2015-11-23 18:43:25)
>> While there are various English spell-checkers in Debian and other
>> distros. there isn't an Indian english spell-checker for various
>> languages. It would be nice to have such a spell-checker in hamara
>> which will reduce the time it takes for a new user to start using the
>> system. The spell-checker would be useful in many ways :-
> Hear, hear!!
>
> The approach in Denmark to grow a Free wordlist was to setup a public
> volunteer process of proof-reading words:
>
>   1) Harvest a pile of "possible" words from various (free!) sources
>   2) Invite anyone to register as proof-reading volunteer
>   3) Ask "is this a proper danish word?" for random words in the pile
>   4) Compile lists of words vetted by 4, 5, 6 or 7 volunteers.
>
> This resources for the danish system is here: http://da.speling.org/
>
> It is free to reuse, but documentation is partly in danish.  I would be
> happy translating the parts you need, if that approach is of interest.
> Perhaps it could even be streamlined and packaged into Debian, for
> potential use for other wordlist communities Worldwide - I'd be happy
> participating in such team (but won't do it alone).
Agree it's a good idea - and would benefit many users - is there any 
resource that covers these Indian English words at the moment?

I guess they are not in the Oxford Dictionary ;)
>
>
>> A list of such Indian-English words, updation, support etc. would make
>> hamara a pretty unique offering.
> Oh. if you want to be _unique_ then the danish approach is not for you -
> you probably should instead go for a non-free closed (perhaps even
> patented?) process to ensure that your competitors (e.g. Debian) don't
> steal your advantage on the India market.  Or what else could possibly
> be implied by "unique offering"?
If there isn't another one, then it would be unique, but only until 
someone includes it in another distro (if they felt the need for that).

I don't think anyone here is very interested in closed / non-free, if 
they are - they probably got off at the wrong stop.


Vik