KDE Digest

I'm in this weeks KDE Digest! I've been working on Sonnet. Sonnet (also known as KSpell2) will be the spelling & grammar checker for KDE4.

I'm working on a Unicode compliant parser for word and sentence boundaries rather than the regex hack we have now. While the regex worked fine for English and most European languages, it didn't work at all for other scripts, like Hebrew or Devanagari. It now does (well mostly, we have a few bugs).

Sonnet works by having plugins for various spelling and grammar engines. Once, Zach (the official maintainer of Sonnet) commits the grammar interface he promised, (It's somewhere on his computer he tells me) I can convert my link-grammar engine interface to a Sonnet plugin.

Sonnet also has a few UI elements that need some usability love. This should follow in a few weeks.

KDE4 is going to rock!