Hi, Francois Marier wrote: > > Your forgot Monaco (which I would assume most to be identical with fr_FR) > > I based my change on "grep fr_ /etc/locale.gen" which returns this on sid: > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 > # fr_BE ISO-8859-1 > # fr_BE.UTF-8 UTF-8 > fr_CA ISO-8859-1 > fr_CA.UTF-8 UTF-8 > # fr_CH ISO-8859-1 > # fr_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8 > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 > # fr_FR ISO-8859-1 > # fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8 > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 > # fr_LU ISO-8859-1 > # fr_LU.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > So I don't know whether Monaco has a distinct locale, but based on this it > looks like they are probably just using fr_FR.
But Monaco has an own entry inside OOo apparently > > err? pidgin and tomboy don't use this afaik. Maybe over gtkspell which > > use enchant, but.. > > They apparently use the myspell dictionaires in /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ > and since hunspell-fr (rightfully) conflicts on myspell-fr, then the > necessary dictionaires are missing in these other apps. Installing this > patched hunspell-fr package fixes the problems. myspell-fr and hunspell-fr come from different authors/source packages etc. > > And you did test it on all the locales and you can tell me that the > > differences between french in france and those locales are such minor to > > ignore those? or are there none? > > There are some differences, but until we have specific dictionaries for all > of them, then using the ones from France is a very good > alternative. Certainly better than not having a dictionary at all :) I honestly disagree. Depending on the differences it's better to have no dictionary than a dictionary accepting a "wrong" spelling as true and misleading users. > The symlinks are a bit of a hack, but I thought that it would be the > simplest solution to get this working for Lenny. Yep, they are (and most probably also after lenny, we can't use the description.xml and OOo extension thingy above, because that would leave the Mozillas and enchant out of the game) But in 3.0, dictionary.lst is gone :) Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
