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- SHORT: German dictionary for AlphaSpell V
- Type: text/spell
- Uploader: fdnh@troi.cc.rochester.edu
- Author: Fergus Duniho and Unknown
- Requires: /text/spell/ASpell.lha
- Version: 1.0
-
- Dies ist ein deutsches AlphaSpell Wörterbuch.
-
- This is a German AlphaSpell lexicon based on:
-
- ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/german/germanl.Z
-
- I don't know who originally compiled the wordlist. The original
- wordlist was entirely in 7-bit ASCII, using `"' after vowels to indicate
- umlauts, and `sS' to indicate `ß'. So I wrote a conversion script for
- Rainer Koppler's program Cvt, which translated it to ISO Latin. That script
- is included in this package.
-
- I came across a larger German dictionary at the same site, which
- had German words written entirely in Roman characters. Umlauted vowels were
- followed by an e, and ss replaced ß. I've translated the umlauts, but I
- don't yet know how to decide which s-pairs should be converted into ß. Once
- I've learned how, I'll finish translating it and upload it.
-