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amperser / proselint

A linter for prose.
http://proselint.com
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Add multilanguage support #308

Closed felixfischer closed 1 year ago

felixfischer commented 8 years ago

It would be great if rules for others languages could be added to the linter.

vnglst commented 8 years ago

Yes that would be cool, I'd love to add support for Dutch for instance!

casperl commented 3 years ago

Perusing the source code, I can spot the issue with why other language support will be a problem. There are a sequence of files under checks that each contains certain lexical checks and rules. It is not merely a question of translating but one of starting from scratch for each language. Such content requires multiple persons with a great deal of expertise in any given language.

That does not mean that proselint is not of critical importance for other languages, especially Afrikaans which I am writing in.

My question is, do you have the infrastructure in proselint in place to handle multiple languages if I set about organising content creation for those applicable files in Afrikaans?

Alternatively, a variation of proselint per language may be equally viable such as a future proseling-af for or proselint-de since there are certainly language specific issues (such as Anglicisms) that English does not have. The more I think about it, that will be the way to go, a common core functionality and then a language specific version since even English is not universal, there are variations in English between South African, British, Australian, Canadian, US and second-language speaker English that a good lint checking tool should be able to recognise.

felixfischer commented 1 year ago

this went stale – closing the issue as I am no longer using the repo