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Hello. I'm interested in creating a Hebrew stemmer to use with Xapian. Hebrew is a complicated language to stem, as it uses the semitic "root" system, rather than prefixes and suffixes, and has many irregularities in accidence (morphology). Fortunately, two bright fellows from the Technion University in Israel have already created a Hebrew morphological analyzer as part of their Hebrew spellchecker project (hspell), whic...

I know quite a few people have interest in internationalizing the menu system. This is a tricky problem, since have a full-blown rendering engine for the more complex languages (Indic, Semitic and East Asian languages being the main ones that have substantial complexities.) Given that, I was thinking that the most sensible thing might be to pre-render strings (basically menu items and messages) as PNG images. That begs a couple of questions: - First, how interesting is this to the u...

For Whom the Gaza Bell Tolls -- Part 1 By Edmund Connelly for The Occidental Observer January 16, 2008 ?The Israelis can kill whomever they want whenever they want.? --Paul Craig Roberts I sometimes think that it?s pointless for Americans to talk much about recent events in Gaza because we know how it will play out ? America will do absolutely nothing to interfere with the ongoing massacre.

For Whom the Gaza Bell Tolls -- Part 1 By Edmund Connelly for The Occidental Observer January 16, 2008 ?The Israelis can kill whomever they want whenever they want.? --Paul Craig Roberts I sometimes think that it?s pointless for Americans to talk much about recent events in Gaza because we know how it will play out ? America will do absolutely nothing to interfere with the ongoing massacre.