wooorm
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5 years ago Chinese is important, yes! As is internationalisation in general, so I’m happy that work is being done in cuss to support other languages. We’d also need translations in retext-equality to actually support non-English here in alex as well, but that’s doable.
The problem with non-Latin-script languages such as Chinese is that alex works on a syntax tree of languages to know what paragraphs, sentences, words, symbols, punctuation, etcetera are (see parse-latin). To support other scripts, we need other projects like that. And I can’t write them.
Some work has been done for Japanese, but it hasn’t been connected to retext yet, which also needs to happen.
This is a lot of work which I personally cannot do as I or other maintainers don‘t speak Chinese (but we can help a bit of course). Some people have tried over the last few years but I believe that work has been abandoned.
Because it’s not very actionable, I’ll close this issue, but if you or anyone is willing and able to do the work, we can help!
Chinese is one of the most commonly used languages in the world. But it's grammarians and vocabularies are quite a mass. Will Alex support Chinese in the near future?