Infix support for Kurdish language about wecantspell.hunspell

[aarondandy]

Interesting, I can't seem to find any Hunspell compatible dictionary files out there. This project is just a port of the orignial Hunspell which can be found at hunspell/hunspell. That said, if my assumptions are correct, and you have a dotnet background my port is going to be a lot easier to follow along with. I'll be honest, I don't completely understand how it all works, but let me see if I can dig up some clues for you.

So first up, I am totally ignorant to the language but it appears to be right to left which may need to have some special treatment for complex affixes. Within Hunspell this seems to be referred to as a "Complex Affix" language and will set of a ton of string reversals in motion. Another thing to consider, is to be sure to encode your files you would make as UTF-8, it just makes it all so much simpler!

Regarding the Levenshtein distance, I don't know if that is implemented exactly for suggestions, but there is a whole lot of code that runs as part of the suggestions that is at least very similar in how it operates. It's not pretty, but it all starts around here: https://github.com/aarondandy/WeCantSpell.Hunspell/blob/master/src/WeCantSpell.Hunspell/WordList.QuerySuggest.cs#L504 . If you have a test runner that includes test coverage such as NCrunch or the new Visual Studio test runner you can use that to find tests that will cover interesting areas and step through them. The test coverage is pretty decent and can be a huge aid in understanding how it all works.

Hope that helps, getting a new language into Hunspell would be pretty cool.

[aarondandy]

Another thought: again I'm no linguist and have no idea what I am talking about but the German language may have some similarities in the way it forms what would be referred to in Hunspell as "Compound Words"

[mhmd-azeez]

@aarondandy thank you very much for your reply, your port is definitely a huge help for me. The problem is that there is not much documentation about Hunspell, and creating dictionaries for it. I'll take a look at the German dictionary, to see what I can understand.