[HN Gopher] To Reo - A Maori Spellchecker
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To Reo - A Maori Spellchecker
Author : firstbabylonian
Score : 102 points
Date : 2024-09-20 12:30 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (xn--treo-l3a.nz)
(TXT) w3m dump (xn--treo-l3a.nz)
| mydriasis wrote:
| I see you've posted about Maori stuff a couple of times. I want
| to congratulate you, this is really, really great. Thank you for
| working to preserve a language and culture! You're presenting
| resources that are tough to find, and that's an amazing thing.
| shever73 wrote:
| A nice synchronicity here, I was only checking Maori words today
| because The Guardian's cryptic crossword was set by "Pangakupu"
| (which means, logically enough, "crossword"). This crossword
| setter always includes a hidden Maori word or phrase in the
| puzzle.
| Titan2189 wrote:
| https://www.maoridictionary.co.nz/ This is the dictionary I use
| most often
| hk__2 wrote:
| I get "Sorry, something went wrong. If this error persists,
| contact us." every time I type something.
| scanny wrote:
| Awesome work, love to see the effort on the technical front of
| bringing a language into broader use!
| stephantul wrote:
| This is very nice and important. We need more tools for small
| languages.
| neallindsay wrote:
| excellent use of a Punycode domain
| yardstick wrote:
| I was going to disagree with you, because most kiwis have no
| idea how to write the special o (myself included), so they'd
| end up typing toreo.nz instead.
|
| Which as it turns out, redirects to xn--treo-l3a.nz anyway.
|
| Nice!
| EdwardDiego wrote:
| I'm a fan of MacOS for making it real easy to type vowels
| with umlauts / macrons etc.
| samatman wrote:
| Unfortunately the macron is the one missing dead-key accent
| on the US "ABC" layout. It's easy enough to hit the globe
| key when this comes up, but it annoys me a bit that Opt-y
| is Y=, and Shift-Opt-Y is A, which is a duplicate: Opt-e-A
| will also produce it. I'd be happier if Opt-y was the
| macron dead key and Shift-Opt-Y took over for Y=: I can go
| a year without needing the Yen symbol, but it makes sense
| to have it. I don't think the English layout needs two ways
| to type A though, it's excessive.
| _zoltan_ wrote:
| a proper o is also missing unfortunately
| mkl wrote:
| The o is an o with a macron. It's pretty easy to install a
| keyboard layout that supports it:
| https://kupu.maori.nz/about/macrons-keyboard-setup. Many
| mobile keyboards support it by default with long presses to
| pop up an accent/variant chooser.
| addaon wrote:
| Slightly off-topic, but it would be nice if HN interpreted
| punycode in link descriptions. Especially given that the links go
| through a redirect, which means that the browser status bar sees
| them as part of the query and not the domain, so the browser's
| own interpretation of punycode never gets applied.
| lpapez wrote:
| You can easily write a Tampermonkey Userscript for that. As HN
| doesn't update the CSS that often, should be quite low-
| maintenance solution.
| samatman wrote:
| Someone always says this when a punycode link shows up.
|
| I'm glad they don't. What you see? That's the link. It's what
| the browser sends, it's what DNS resolves: it's the link.
| Displaying it as Unicode is just a display option, and it's one
| which opens up all manner of mischief through confusables.
|
| It's a hacker culture choice, and it's one I appreciate.
| ks2048 wrote:
| I can't type anything in the text area on Firefox. Works in
| Chrome (macOS).
| joemi wrote:
| Also doesn't work in Firefox on Windows but does in Chrome.
| NelsonMinar wrote:
| Wow neat! There's a great collection of Maori-made technology for
| te reo Maori. I'm thinking also of Te Hiku Media's work building
| a Maori speech recognition system:
| https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/te-hiku-media-maori-speech-ai/
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