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PyEnchant spellchecking library --- ( English in Denmark )

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henh...@gmail.com

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Jan 1, 2023, 6:20:50 PM1/1/23
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>>> enchant.list_languages()


['en_BW', 'en_AU', 'en_BZ', 'en_GB', 'en_JM', 'en_DK', 'en_HK', 'en_GH', 'en_US', 'en_ZA', 'en_ZW', 'en_SG', 'en_NZ', 'en_BS', 'en_AG', 'en_PH', 'en_IE', 'en_NA', 'en_TT', 'en_IN', 'en_NG', 'en_CA']


----------- i had NO Idea that English was SO big in Denmark !!!





PyEnchant is a spellchecking library for Python, based on the excellent Enchant library. PyEnchant combines all the functionality of the underlying Enchant library with the …

Ruud Harmsen

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Jan 2, 2023, 1:47:11 AM1/2/23
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Sun, 1 Jan 2023 15:20:49 -0800 (PST): "henh...@gmail.com"
<henh...@gmail.com> scribeva:
>>>> enchant.list_languages()
>
> ['en_BW', 'en_AU', 'en_BZ', 'en_GB', 'en_JM', 'en_DK', 'en_HK', 'en_GH', 'en_US', 'en_ZA', 'en_ZW', 'en_SG', 'en_NZ', 'en_BS', 'en_AG', 'en_PH', 'en_IE', 'en_NA', 'en_TT', 'en_IN', 'en_NG', 'en_CA']
>
> ----------- i had NO Idea that English was SO big in Denmark !!!

Microsoft lunacy. They have a similar list for Arabic. You MUST choose
a country. There is no option for (inherently international) MSA.

They didn't understand that a country code (ISO 3166) _CAN_ be added
to ISO 639 language codes. They think you _MUST_, always. Isn't so.

There's also an optional script parameter, that luckily MS isn't aware
of. en-US-Latn is US English in Latin script. Duh!
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Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.com
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