On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:49:20PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Given the limitations of ispell, I would instead urge us all to > migrate all our packages to use for example hunspell and drop ispell > completely from the distribution. It would be a lot easier to > maintain a dictionary in Debian if only one format of it needed to be > generated, and it would be a lot easier to configure a desktop to use > a given dictionary if only one package needed to be configured to use > it.
Generating all the different dictionaries isn't that hard. The problem is getting any of them to fully support your language. > And it would be a lot easier to check spelling in any language if all > programs supported a spell checker that supported any language, and > not only the "simple" ones with a structure similar to English. :) You mean that there is any spell checker that fully supports a "non-simple" language? I even have to wonder whether English is properly supported. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
