New upstream version 2017.01.22

[deb_pkgs/scowl.git] / speller / README_en.txt.sh

diff --git a/speller/README_en.txt.sh b/speller/README_en.txt.sh
index b5034f7c3bd71c1847e67441412eb0fca8d7056d..41cd27156c0a10f05abf24483a9b40314f52134a 100644 (file)
--- a/speller/README_en.txt.sh
+++ b/speller/README_en.txt.sh
@@ -33,18 +33,23 @@ The following dictionaries are available:
   en_CA (Canadian)
   en_GB-ise (British with "ise" spelling)
   en_GB-ize (British with "ize" spelling)
+  en_AU (Australian)
 
   en_US-large
   en_CA-large
   en_GB-large (with both "ise" and "ize" spelling)
+  en_AU-large
 
 The normal (non-large) dictionaries correspond to SCOWL size 60 and,
 to encourage consistent spelling, generally only include one spelling
 variant for a word.  The large dictionaries correspond to SCOWL size
 70 and may include multiple spelling for a word when both variants are
-considered almost equal.  Also, the general quality of the larger
-dictionaries may also be less as they are not as carefully checked for
-errors as the normal dictionaries.
+considered almost equal.  The larger dictionaries however (1) have not
+been as carefully checked for errors as the normal dictionaries and
+thus may contain misspelled or invalid words; and (2) contain
+uncommon, yet valid, words that might cause problems as they are
+likely to be misspellings of more common words (for example, "ort" and
+"calender").
 
 To get an idea of the difference in size, here are 25 random words
 only found in the large dictionary for American English:
@@ -54,13 +59,13 @@ only found in the large dictionary for American English:
   incretion jalapeño's kelpie kishkes neuroglias pietisms pullulation
   stemwinder stenoses syce thalassic zees
 
-The en_US and en_CA are the official dictionaries for Hunspell.  The
-en_GB and large dictionaries are made available on an experimental
+The en_US, en_CA and en_AU are the official dictionaries for Hunspell.
+The en_GB and large dictionaries are made available on an experimental
 basis.  If you find them useful please send me a quick email at
 kevina@gnu.org.
 
 If none of these dictionaries suite you (for example, maybe you want
-the larger dictionary but only use spelling of a word) additional
+the normal dictionary that also includes common variants) additional
 dictionaries can be generated at http://app.aspell.net/create or by
 modifying speller/make-hunspell-dict in SCOWL.  Please do let me know
 if you end up publishing a customized dictionary.
@@ -75,11 +80,21 @@ kevina@gnu.org or to the wordlist-devel mailing lists
 have specific issues with any of these dictionaries please file a bug
 report at https://github.com/kevina/wordlist/issues.
 
-IMPORTANT CHANGES FROM 2015.02.15:
+IMPORTANT CHANGES INTRODUCED In 2016.11.20:
+
+New Australian dictionaries thanks to the work of Benjamin Titze
+(btitze@protonmail.ch).
+
+IMPORTANT CHANGES INTRODUCED IN 2016.04.24:
 
 The dictionaries are now in UTF-8 format instead of ISO-8859-1.  This
 was required to handle smart quotes correctly.
 
+IMPORTANT CHANGES INTRODUCED IN 2016.01.19:
+
+"SET UTF8" was changes to "SET UTF-8" in the affix file as some
+versions of Hunspell do not recognize "UTF8".
+
 ADDITIONAL NOTES:
 
 The NOSUGGEST flag was added to certain taboo words.  While I made an