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From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Public Domain Dictionary
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.145123.23369@nntp.hut.fi>
Date: 8 Jun 91 14:51:23 GMT
References: <1991Jun2.015314.5771@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> <3797@naucse.cse.nau.edu> <91156.144339GONTER@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
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In article <91156.144339GONTER@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>, GONTER@awiwuw11 (Gerhard Gonter) writes:
>Before we start compiling yet another one, we should sit back and
>consider an encoding scheme which is flexible enough to meet a wide
>variety of needs and applications. It's also a good idea to think
>about a possible way to expand such an encoding scheme for applications
>we don't even have an idea about now.

I think it'd be a good idea to provide support for several languages
in the format.  Then of course there'll be some trouble with the
character sets, etc, but the work would be useful all over the world,
and perhaps it could be made into a multi-language freely
distributable dictionary.  Maybe it could also be useful as a
dictionary for automatic translation tools (ah well, then the format
would be quite complicated).

//Jyrki