hunspell dictionaries, what's "missing"

Parag N(पराग़) panemade at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 11:21:46 UTC 2008


Hi caolan,
On Jan 9, 2008 3:52 PM, Caolan McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> wrote:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary now lists the
> languages for which we ship aspell dictionaries but not hunspell ones.
> i.e. Breton, Faeroese, Icelandic, Indonesian, Malayalam, Scots Gaelic
> and Serbian.
>
  Thanks for this FeatureDictionary work. I have already in
communication with Malayalam hunspell dictionary author and he need
some more time to fix some remaining issues. Also, asked him to
include license when he will release new upstream tarball. Aspell-ml
is going through review.

> Packaging those dictionaries will enable OOo to spell-check your
> language and have the same level of support in
> OOo/evo/gedit/xchat/tomboy/pidgen/KDE (and hopefully firefox
> eventually).
>
> Also a Swedish speaker should consider packaging the Swedish hyphenation
> dictionary available from
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries#Swedish_.28Sweden.29
> which would enable better line breaking for over-long words in OOo, a
> complaint I've heard occasionally.
>
Regards,
Parag.




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