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Polish Diacritics Light 1.0 - text-conversion module (polish-diacritics-light-10.hqx)

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From: jaceki@kagi.com
Subject: Polish Diacritics Light 1.0 - text-conversion module


'Polish Diacritics Light' is a conversion module for the 'Restore
Diacritic' application. 7-bit ASCII texts often use the following
replacements for the Polish letters: à -> a, ´ -> e, ç -> c, ½ -> l etc.
The problem arises if you want to reverse this operation. Simple
find-replace will not work as many words should remain unchanged. This
module partially solves this problem by using the conversion dictionary so
only the appropriate words will be converted. Restoring diacritical marks
is often ambiguous. Restore Diacritics will not address this problem. This
means that restoring diacritics operation is not 100% error free but the
converted text is better and easier to read than the original.

Polish Diacritics conversion module should be useful for people who are
learning Polish.

Please visit my home-page for
more information.

Jacek Iwanski
http://users.netmatters.co.uk/dandaforbes