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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:blue'>Dear Hayim,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:blue'>Changing a
character in a standardized orthography is not an option.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:blue'>Jan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Hayim Sheynin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 14, 2008 5:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lexicog] Spellchecking Unicode in MS-Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Dear Jan,<br>
<br>
Would you consider changing the graphem to one of the following<br>
<br>
Ĥ Latin capital letter H with circumflex (UnicodeLatin Extended-A 0124<br>
ĥ Latin small letter h with circumflex (Unicode Latin Extended-A 0125<br>
<br>
or<br>
<br>
Ħ Latin capital letter H with stroke (UnicodeLatin Extended-A 0126)<br>
ħ Latin small letter h with stroke (Unicode Latin Extended-A 0127)<br>
<br>
If you didn't use these characters I think it worth to try them.<br>
<br>
Best luck,<br>
<br>
Hayim Sheynin<br>
<br>
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Jan F. Ullrich <<a
href="mailto:jfu%40centrum.cz">jfu@centrum.cz</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
> Dear lexicographers,<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> I wonder if someone here could advice about the following problem. Years<br>
> ago, before the full development of Unicode and Unicode fonts we created
our<br>
> own fonts for the Lakota language. In those fonts the needed characters were<br>
> set to codes of characters not present in the language. For instance we
used<br>
> umlaut vowels. This solution was imperfect but beside other things it<br>
> allowed us to take advantage of Microsoft Word spellchecking function. We<br>
> simply created a list words and word forms and inserted them into a custom<br>
> dictionary for MS-Word. Of course, this was a simplistic spellchecker, one<br>
> that could not cover all the word forms of the language, but at that time
it<br>
> actually represented a helpful tool for our students and language
teachers.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> A few years ago we transferred all of our textual materials into Unicode
and<br>
> we also programmed a powerful morphoparser and lemmatizer that help us<br>
> create a quite comprehensive list of word forms. But we are having a
problem<br>
> using this list for spell-checking in MS-Office, because one of the
Unicode<br>
> characters that we use is not recognized by MS-Word. It is the Latin
letter<br>
> h with caron (U+021F)<br>
> (<a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/021f/index.htm">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/021f/index.htm</a>).
MS-Word won't<br>
> consider this letter a part of the word no matter what we do and this<br>
> disables using the spellchecking functions in that editor. It causes<br>
> problems in other ways too, for instance in searching for words within a<br>
> document, in various formatting operations etc.<br>
><br>
> We found out that the character is recognized when we associate the text<br>
> with a different language for spellchecking, for instance French, but then<br>
> other characters are not recognized. If we keep the text assigned to
English<br>
> spellchecking (which is desired) then it is only h-caron that is not<br>
> recognized.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> I do not know enough about Unicode to figure out how to solve this. For<br>
> instance I don't know if the character recognition within MS-Word a
feature<br>
> of MS-Word or of Unicode. Couple years back we contacted Microsoft about<br>
> this but we received no response.<br>
><br>
> I am aware that there are other options for spell-checking a text, but since<br>
> the MS-Word is such a main-stream editor used in most schools and colleges<br>
> where the Lakota language is taught and used, it would be really nice if
we<br>
> could make the spellchecking function work in it.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> We would really appreciate any advice on how solve this?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Jan<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Jan F. Ullrich, Linguistic Director<br>
><br>
> Lakota Language Consortium<br>
><br>
> www.lakhota.org<br>
><br>
> e-mail: <a href="mailto:jfu%40lakhota.org">jfu@lakhota.org</a><br>
><br>
> Skype: janfull<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> <o:p></o:p></p>
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