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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: American to English spelling
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Date: 10 Nov 90 05:17:59 GMT
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In article <179@tivoli.UUCP> lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) writes:
>In article <2402@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:
<<Does anybody have an editor script to convert American spelling
<<(localize, color) to English spelling (localise, colour)?  I'd use
<
<This is a non-trivial task, eh?

Yes, for the reasons mentioned in my previous two articles.

>I don't have a good answer, but I understand that
<FrameMaker International edition can set spelling to either US or UK, and then you 
<could run the spellchecker, telling it to globally replace.  You would have to make 
<a complete pass, I think, telling it once to go ahead for each word that needs to 
<be changed... I haven't seen the International edition, only heard it described. 
<a 1.5 Million word dictionary in beaucoup languages (with a UK/US switch)!

Yes, but will it be able to figure out that `jail' is supposed to be `gaol'?

					--Scott

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