Re: Autodetect language + ispell ...

Re: Autodetect language + ispell ...

[Michael Piotrowski]

Arne Koewing <ark@gmx.net> writes:

> does anybody know about an 'language-autodetect' function
> or something?
>
> i want to automatically spellcheck my postings which are in different
> languages and I'm looking for an method to select the right dictionary
> for the buffers contents...

The packages guess-lang.el and auto-lang.el were posted some time ago
(ca. May 2001) in gnu.emacs.sources.

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Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                                  <mxp@dynalabs.de>
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Re: Autodetect language + ispell ...

[Kester Clegg]

Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> You can easily set the dictionary based on the group you are just
> posting to (see http://my.gnus.org/FAQ for information on how to do it),
> for Mail things are a bit harder. Perhaps a macro which does first set
> dictionary and then start a new mail?

I wrote a little tutorial for writing a macro that switched keyboard to
a new language, loaded a picture of the new keyboard in a little window
under your mail and switched ispell appropriately.  Maybe it'll give a
starting point.  It's here if you're interested:

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kester/funct_tutorial.html



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