Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

Hi Erik, On Tuesday, 2017-02-14 22:28:45 +0100, Erik Quaeghebeur wrote: > Hmm, it seems language tags such as ‘nl’ or ‘fr’ without a region > component, and which are valid according to bcp47 are not recognized by > LO. Is this a bug I should report? See my earlier mail in reply to Khaled. It's

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

Hi Khaled, On Wednesday, 2017-02-15 15:35:59 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:42:22PM +, Caolán McNamara wrote: > > > Hmm, it seems language tags such as ‘nl’ or ‘fr’ without a region > > > component, and which are valid according to bcp47 are not recognized > > > by LO

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

Hi, On Wednesday, 2017-02-15 12:42:22 +, Caolán McNamara wrote: > Yeah, "your mileage may vary" I guess kicks in there. The main "real- > world" use case for BCP47 is to distinguish Cyrillic vs Latin Serbian. > Couple of things. Firstly, you only get 8 letters for the part after x- > so fr-x-

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

> Firefox has no problem using ar.{aff,dic} for Arabic, neither does > gtkspell (or whatever GTK+ apps use). I can confirm. Firefox also deals nicely with the four French variants, even listing “French (Moderne)” for fr-moderne (doesn't do that for the others though, just gives “fr-reforme1990”, d

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

Caolán McNamara 2017-02-15 13:42: > > For Fedora we use http://www.dicollecte.org/download/fr/hunspell-french > -dictionaries-v6.0.2.zip and just unzip it and rename the > toutesvariantes.* to fr_FR.* to serve as the default French spelling > dictionary. FYI: ‘classique’ is (now) the recommended o

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:42:22PM +, Caolán McNamara wrote: > > Hmm, it seems language tags such as ‘nl’ or ‘fr’ without a region > > component, and which are valid according to bcp47 are not recognized > > by LO. Is this a bug I should report? > > Only if you intend to work on solving it, is

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 22:28 +0100, Erik Quaeghebeur wrote: > Caolán McNamara 2017-2-13 10:31: > > > > For dictionaries (and hyphenation patterns and thesaurus things) > > under > > linux we also check for system installed ones. This is > > DICT_SYSTEM_DIR > > in configure.ac and lingucomponent/sou

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

Caolán McNamara 2017-2-13 10:31: > > For dictionaries (and hyphenation patterns and thesaurus things) under > linux we also check for system installed ones. This is DICT_SYSTEM_DIR > in configure.ac and lingucomponent/source/lingutil/lingutil.cxx. Thanks for your elaborate response. I guess that

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

> To install bundled, unzip the .oxt into a sub-dir of LO's > share/extensions/ dir. OK, this seems the best approach if we want to install whole extensions in Gentoo and not just the dictionary files. Thank, Erik ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOf

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 09:51 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > Any LO extension .oxt file (not just those relating to dictionaries) > can be installed in one of three ways, per user, "shared", or > "bundled". > > To install shared, run LO's 'unopkg --shared add ...' for installing  > that extension.

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

On 02/12/2017 11:45 PM, Erik Quaeghebeur wrote: Hunspell is covered; I'm focusing on dictionary files (spelling, thesaurus, hyphenation). Let's consider the French dictionaries from their source . These contain fr-classique, fr-moderne, fr-toutesvariantes, and fr-refor

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

Thanks, slacka. > To answer your first and third question, we use hunspell not myspell. Ok. I knew that hunspell was used, but was not sure about the location LO looks in for dictionary files. /usr/share/hunspell contains the spell checking dictionaries and these are linked to from /usr/share/my

Re: system-wide location for dictionary files and dictionary file name format

To answer your first and third question, we use hunspell not myspell. For the spellcheck function to work, LibreOffice requires both the main hunspell package along with a language dictionary (hunspell-en for English, hunspell-de for German, etc). For a package maintainer, your main concern should