Q: How to spell check languages that do not have word breaks?

[lysari]

I was working on Khmer dictionary. Everything works find when checks word by word. But I have a problem when I test it as a paragraph all that goes wrong. How do I fix that?
words : ព័ត៌មាន, អំពី, សមាជិក, បក្ស - working
paragraph : ព័ត៌មានអំពីសមាជិកបក្ស - not working

[Jason3S]

@lysari,

That is exactly the challenge with languages like Khmer and Thai. See:

• Unicode Text Segmentation
• Thai line breaking: how to break Thai text effectively - Stack Overflow

It is possible to tell the spell checker to "compound" words, but that will only work with short sentences and will mark the entire sentence as wrong instead of just the incorrect word.

If this is a needed feature, consider funding its development.

[lysari]

@Jason3S Thank you for reply. If the feature is something others in the development community might be interested in, consider contributing to an existing open-source project, or working together with the community to develop the feature.

[heipiao233]

Also, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have no word breaks.