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Fijian Spell Checker for OpenOffice Completed
OpenOffice is perhaps the most popular free/open source software word processing program in existence and is available on Linux, a free/open source software operating system, as well as many other platforms. Its spell checker has support for over 37 languages. Aside from Maori, languages from the Pacific islands are lacking. This project has created a Fijian spell check dictionary for OpenOffice.
The wordlist was generated by computer from a LaTeX formatted version of the iVolavosa Vakaviti (Monolingual Fijian Dictionary) and then checked by Fijian linguists. The wordlist contains: (1) most Fijian words; (2) Fijian names of people, countries, days of the week, months and places in Fiji; (3) common abbreviations used in Fiji.
On August 11, 2005, the project was completed and the finished Fijian spelling dictionary was submitted to OpenOffice for inclusion in their next release.
This project was funded by the USP-IOSN (International Open Source Network) Microgrant Program for Pacific Island Countries, a joint effort of the University of the South Pacific (USP) in partnership with the United Nations Development Program's Asia Pacific Development Information Program (APDIP).
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