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           SPELL=m17n-lib
         VERSION=1.8.0
          SOURCE="${SPELL}-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
   SOURCE_URL[0]=http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/m17n/${SOURCE}
     SOURCE_HASH=sha512:8aba862888393232172c03cdf52531e29ea969c4327e6f69879ecf7438eafee32782f509ec292b3e1b7cd3202e2764984d7a59e85cdb87a7c8bfcbac5b0ee6fd
SOURCE_DIRECTORY="${BUILD_DIRECTORY}/${SPELL}-${VERSION}"
        WEB_SITE="http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib-en/"
      LICENSE[0]=GPL
         ENTERED=20081029
           SHORT="The multilingualization library"
cat << EOF
m17n-lib currently supports displaying 30 different writing scripts,
or 169 different languages. It also supports inputting 66 different
languages (170 if you count inputting by numerical code-point).
Specifically:

* The m17n library is an open source software.
* The m17n library is for any Linux/Unix applications.
* The m17n library realizes multilingualization of many aspects of
applications.
* The m17n library represents multilingual text as an object named
M-text.  M-text is a string with attributes called text properties,
and designed to substitute for string in C. Text properties carry any
information required to input, display and edit the text.
* The m17n library supports functions to handle M-texts.

m17n is an abbreviation of Multilingualization.
EOF