Translating english into amglish
| From: | Murray @ PlanetThoughtful | Date: | Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:12:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Translating english into amglish | ||
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Hi All,
I'm based in Australia but my blog is predominantly read by Americans. I'm
wondering if anyone knows of a class that will translate Australian / UK /
Canadian / Whathaveyou English spellings into their American English
equivalents?
In other words, a class that will take a string with spellings such as "The
colour of my neighbour's car, I recently realised, isn't grey after all" and
will return "The color of my neighbor's car, I recently realized, isn't gray
after all", and so on.
Given time I'm sure I could work out many of the transformation rules
myself, and implement them via regular expressions, but why reinvent the
wheel if someone has already done so?
Much warmth,
Murray
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