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OpenCrossword Dictionaries

This repository contains JSON dictionaries of multiple languages for use in the OpenCrossword project. The words are formatted for crossword-making in different languages.

./raw-dictionaries contains raw Aspell language dumps
./dictionaries contains formatted JSON dictionaries

Generate a dictionary

Dump a dictionary from GNU Aspell
```
aspell -d $LANGUAGE_CODE dump master | aspell -l en expand > $LANGUAGE_CODE.txt
```
where $LANGUAGE_CODE is the ISO 639-1 code of the language you want to generate a dictionary for.

Run the generate.py script

python3 gen_dict.py [Raw dictionary path] [Result dictionary path]

About the dictionaries

The dictionaries are simple JSON translations of GNU Aspell language dumps. See GNU Aspell for more information.

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Add `TEXT_REPLACEMENTS` dictionary

Replacements (such as "é" > "e", for French) should be listed in a dictionary. The replacements set (one set for each language) to be used will be specified in the third argument when running python3 gen_dict.py.

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