Office 2007 Language Interface Packs with Luxembourgish and Irish spell-checkers
The range of languages for which Office 2007 offers a spell-checker is constantly expanding, as the regular readers of this blog know. Luxembourgish and Irish have just been added to this list. Users of Office 2007 can now freely download a Language Interface Pack (LIP) for either of these languages. The pack will allow them to change the language of the user interface, if they wish. They can also keep the original language of their version of Office (English, French, German…) and simply use the Luxembourgish or Irish speller included in these packs.
The two new spellers have been created with the Lexicon Creator I presented at the European Association of Lexicography (Euralex) conference in 2008.
Luxembourgish is a Germanic language spoken by about 390,000 people, mainly in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is one of the national languages of that country (German and French being two of its administrative languages).
Irish is the national language of the Republic of Ireland. It is also one of the official languages of the European Union (since January 1st, 2007). About 1.8 million people can understand that language to some degree (it is the mother tongue of around 70,000 people).
These language packs have been developed within the framework of the Microsoft Local Language Program, whose aim is to preserve local and regional languages and cultures and to enable users of software to work with interfaces in their own languages. You can click on the following links to download these two new LIPs:
· Luxembourgish Language Interface Pack for Microsoft Office 2007
· Irish Language Interface Pack for Microsoft Office 2007
-- Thierry Fontenelle (Program Manager)
