#6104 NORM Never A: unifying spelling and dictionaries

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#6104: unifying spelling and dictionaries
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 Reporter:  skierpage     |       Owner:  dgilmore      
     Type:  task          |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  build-system  |     Version:  Build 650     
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 bug #5009 requests Hunspell "as it is the only free spellchecker that
 support features needed for a good Arabic spell checker".[[BR]]
 Ideally OLPC would have one spelling engine, one extensible set of
 dictionaries, and a common dictionary for user-added words.

 XULRunner thus Browse uses hunspell, I believe using dictionaries in
 /usr/lib/xulrunner-nnn/dictionaries.  I think Abiword thus Write uses the
 enchant library which in OLPC is currently configured for aspell and
 myspell, not hunspell.  I don't know what other XO apps use.

 I think getting enchant and XULRunner to use the same hunspell
 dictionaries is "just configuration".

 http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2006-September/msg00225.html
 is a useful thread on unifying.

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