Language info: Danish

[Asger Alstrup Nielsen]

>1) Reading over http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell/international/ and
>letting me know I am overlooking anything.


Regarding the encoding conversion, I have just implemented a generic framework 
for doing this in LyX.  Check the "encoding/"
directory in the lyx cvs repository.  It's ready to get used in other projects.
I have implemented conversions to and from Unicode to and from ISO-8859-X, 
where X is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 and 15.  There
is also a design document in development/lyx that describes how LyX will solve 
the wide character problem.
It might be interesting to you.
You can find these files using the LyX CVS web interface at http://lyx.org.
(Notice that the latest converters have not been commited yet, but will be 
within a couple of days.)

>a) What 8-bit character sets are typically used for your language and
>any shortcomings those character sets may have.


Danish is ISO-8859-1, although other encodings have the sufficient characters.

>b) What letters are vowels in your language


a e i o u y æ ø å

>c) What additional charters can appear in a word in your language and
>where they can appear such as the "-" in French or the "'" in English.


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>d) Additional considerations that should be taken into account for spell
>checking your language such as allowing run together words.


Allow run together words per default.  Also, optionally allow run-together 
words with an "s" in between the words.

>f) Links to word lists for you language and a critique of how good you
>think they are.


The ispell Danish dictionary is good quality.

>g) Any LGPL or weaker code for converting words in your language to
>there sound like or phoneme equivalent. Good soundlike code will allow
>similar sounding words to have the same mapping such as dog and dig.
>Good phoneme code will map a word into how it really sounds.


Don't know of any.

Greets,

Asger Alstrup