Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!email!swdsrv.edvz.univie.ac.at!nestroy!awiwuw11!gonter From: GONTER@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at (Gerhard Gonter) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Public Domain Dictionary Message-ID: <91164.182712GONTER@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> Date: 13 Jun 91 19:53:25 GMT Article-I.D.: awiwuw11.91164.182712GONTER References: <1991Jun2.015314.5771@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> <3797@naucse.cse.nau.edu> <91156.144339GONTER@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> <1991Jun8.145123.23369@nntp.hut.fi> Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria Lines: 36 Path: awiwuw11!psuvm!ysub!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohi o-state.edu! usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!sics.se!fuug!funic!nnt p.hut.fi!usenet 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> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: GONTER@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at (Gerhard Gonter) Nntp-Posting-Host: sauna.hut.fi > 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 As a native german speaker I fully agree with you. best wishes, Gerhard Gonter +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Gerhard Gonter Tel: +43/1/31336/4578