Adding Extension for Experimental Thai Spelling

[Michael Meeks]

On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 16:23 +0000, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> As I understand it, the lack of a usable Thai spell-checker for
> LibreOffice (unlike, say, a Khmer spell-checker) is due to the Thai
> break iterator.

	In common with many, I know nothing about Thai ;-) but my friend Tim
does - quite possibly he can help you ? (or do you know each other
already) ?

	Thanks !

		Michael

[ who abnormally leaves the context intact for Tim ;-]

>   (I had expected Thai and Khmer to face similar
> problems, for neither has a visible word separator and syllable
> boundaries are often unclear in both.)  Tagging Thai script text as
> Khmer does not work (at least, not in Version 3.4.5); the word
> boundaries are still determined by the Thai break iterator.
> 
> Is it possible to create an experimental alternative to the Thai
> break iterator that can be shared with other people as a LibreOffice
> extension? I would be prepared to routinely use U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE
> (ZWSP) to separate words in the Thai script, but I suspect Thais would
> not.  Also, I can seem my first useful version fouling up the
> rendering of pre-existing text.  I can't work out how to create a break
> iterator as an *extension*. Could someone please advise me how, e.g. by
> pointing to the documentation or an example.  I can find documentation
> for *publishing* an extension, but that does not address *creating* an
> extension.
> 
> Richard.

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