Short: German dictionary for AlphaSpell Author: Fergus Duniho and Unknown Uploader: fdnh troi cc rochester edu Type: text/misc Version: 1.1 Requires: text/spell/ASpell.lha Architecture: generic The dictionary's index file has been updated for AlphaSpell VI. Dies ist ein deutsches AlphaSpell Wörterbuch. This is a German AlphaSpell lexicon based on: ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/german/germanl.Z I don't know who originally compiled the wordlist. The original wordlist was entirely in 7-bit ASCII, using `"' after vowels to indicate umlauts, and `sS' to indicate `ß'. So I wrote a conversion script for Rainer Koppler's program Cvt, which translated it to ISO Latin. That script is included in this package. I came across a larger German dictionary at the same site, which had German words written entirely in Roman characters. Umlauted vowels were followed by an e, and ss replaced ß. I've translated the umlauts, but I don't yet know how to decide which s-pairs should be converted into ß. Once I've learned how, I'll finish translating it and upload it.