Re: [Aspell-user] creating a cross-language wordlist

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Dormont, Dan (Corporate) wrote:

> I'm using aspell to support spell-checking in five different languages.  
> I've also been building a wordlist of terms specific to my business that
> are not in the standard dictionary.  At the moment, because I created
> this wordlist with --lang=en, I can only use it with the English
> dictionaries.  However, these terms, names, and acronyms are not
> language-specific.  How can I use this single wordlist in different
> languages?  If the answer is I can't, what workarounds are available?

You can't at this time.  You could simple copy the personal word list, 
but you will have to change the header.  A simpile shell script could do 
this.

> Note, so far I've been doing this with a personal wordlist, but I'm
> thinking of switching to the compiled dictionary for performance
> reasons.

Then you will need one compiled word list for each language.

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