Dictionaries/spell checkers

Edward Cherlin echerlin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 19:20:24 EDT 2008


On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the link Khaled. I went through the wiki page, and it seems
> that once we switch to F9 as our base, 6104 should be fixed. We need
> to double check though if the versions of Xulrunner and libabiword
> (rather, enchant) we ship use hunspell or not.
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu

Should we contribute all of the words in our localizations to these
dictionaries? We are going to be making up computer terminology in
many languages.

> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
>> I think we need first to spell dictionaries/engines among all
>> applications, I think F9 did most of the job
>> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary), see also
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6104
>>
>> Regards,
>>  Khaled
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:28:03AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>>> I was wondering about the languages - I guess as a minimal, we should
>>> ship the spelling dictionaries for the languages mentioned in
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mfg-data#Keyboards (if they are available).
>>> This should also be also a part of the locale specific customization
>>> keys we have been thinking of (more or this very soon, ie, as soon as
>>> my brain become a bit cleared up :-).
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sayamindu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > well, there are the cracklib dictionaries.  There are also the spelling
>>> > dicts for aspell and the wordlists for Speak (not in the core builds, but
>>> > should be).
>>> >
>>> > SJ
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >> Can anyone provide me with any information on the
>>> >> dictionaries/spellcheckers that we ship in our builds ?
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >> Sayamindu
>>> >>
>>> >> --
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>> --
>>  Khaled Hosny
>>  Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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