Re: International support

[Samphan Raruenrom]

Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
> In Danish (and I guess the other Scandinavian languages), we form
> words by concatenating others.
> For instance, "pan cake" is written "pandekage", being composed
> of "pande" and "kage".
> Sometimes, we add an extra consonant (typically s) in between
> the two words, but there are no simple rules for this.
> 
> The point is that this word construction is so common that it's
> virtually impossible to list all words in a statis dictionary.
> Therefor, it makes sense to have a switch that will accept
> those words that seem to be run-together.

Very interesting!
In Thai, we don't put spaces between words at all so
the same situation happends naturally.
Typical Thai word-segmentation algorithm (which usually
do spelling check also) use maximal-match backtracking 
algorithm with trie word list(s). 
My implementation is at http://www.thai.net/libinthai/
IBM Classes for Unicode implementation is at
http://www.ibm.com/java/education/boundaries/boundaries.html