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 B.2 Unsupported
 ===============
 
 These languages, when written in the given script, are currently
 unsupported by Aspell for one reason or another.
 
 Code   Language Name   Script
 ja     Japanese        Japanese
 km     Khmer           Khmer
 ko     Korean          Han, Hangul
 lo     Lao             Lao
 th     Thai            Thai
 zh     Chinese         Han
 
 B.2.1 The Thai, Khmer, and Lao Scripts
 --------------------------------------
 
 The Thai, Khmer, and Lao scripts presents a different problem for
 Aspell.  The problem is not that there are more than 210 unique symbols,
 but that there are no spaces between words.  This means that there is no
 easy way to split a sentence into individual words.  However, it is
 still possible to spell check these scripts, it is just a lot more
 difficult.  I will be happy to work with someone who is interested in
 adding Thai, Khmer, or Lao support to Aspell, but it is not likely
 something I will do on my own in the foreseeable future.
 
 B.2.2 Languages which use Hŕnzi Characters
 ------------------------------------------
 
 Hŕnzi Characters are used to write Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and were
 once used to write Vietnamese.  Each hŕnzi character represents a
 syllable of a spoken word and also has a meaning.  Since there are
 around 3,000 of them in common usage it is unlikely that Aspell will
 ever be able to support spell checking languages written using hŕnzi
 until full Unicode support is implemented.  However, I am not even sure
 if these languages need spell checking since hŕnzi characters are
 generally not entered in directly.  Furthermore even if Aspell could
 spell check hŕnzi the existing suggestion strategy will not work well
 at all, and thus a completely new strategy will need to be developed.
 However, if it is the case that hŕnzi needs to be spell checked and you
 know something about the issues involved please fell free to contact me.
 
 B.2.3 Japanese
 --------------
 
 Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of "hiragana", "katakana",
 "kanji", and sometimes "romaji".  "Hiragana" and "katakana" are both
 syllabaries unique to Japan, "kanji" is a modified form of hŕnzi, and
 "romaji" uses the Latin alphabet.  With some work, Aspell should be
 able to check the non-kanji part of Japanese text.  However, based on
 my limited understanding of Japanese hiragana is often used at the end
 of kanji.  Thus if Aspell was to simply separate out the hiragana from
 kanji it would end up with a lot of word endings which are not proper
 words and will thus be flagged as misspellings.  However, this can be
 fairly easily rectified as text is tokenized into words before it is
 converted into Aspell's internal encoding.  In fact, some Japanese text
 is written in entirely in one script.  For example books for children
 and foreigners are sometimes written entirely in hiragana.  Thus,
 Aspell, in its current state, could prove at least somewhat useful for
 spell checking Japanese.
 
 B.2.4 Hangul
 ------------
 
 Korean is generally written in hangul or a mixture of han and hangul.
 In Hangul letters individual letters, known as jamo, are grouped
 together in syllable blocks.  Unicode allows Hangul to be stored in one
 of three ways, (A) Individual jamo letters (Hangul Compatibility Jamo,
 U+3130 - U+318F), (D) decomposed jamo (Hangul Jamo, U+1100 - U+11FF),
 and (C) precoposed sylable blocks (Hangul Syllables, U+AC00 - U+D7AF).
 In order for Aspell to work with Hangul it needs to be form A.
 Unfortunately the existing Normalization code in Aspell will not be
 able to adequately deal with converting Hangul from form D and C to
 form A and back again.  However, once this code is written, Aspell
 should be able to spell check Hangul without any problem.
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