[Bug 1591149] Re: Find more modern text for Italian word prediction

2016-06-10 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: ubuntu-keyboard (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1591149 Tit

[Bug 1591149] Re: Find more modern text for Italian word prediction

2016-06-10 Thread Stefano Verzegnassi
Yet another italian! :) One thing I saw when typing on the keyboard with an Italian dictionary is that it does not recognise loanwords from English (and at the current days we use them a lot in our everyday Italian). (random) e.g. "Mi è arrivato dello SPAM in posta" -> "Mi è arrivato dello SPAMPA

[Bug 1591149] Re: Find more modern text for Italian word prediction

2016-06-10 Thread Alberto Mardegan
Looks like it's not easy to find contemporary texts accompanied by a permissive license. The site liberliber.it has many free contemporary books, by the are all distributed under the CC-BY-NC-SA, and the NC (Non Commercial) bit is a bit problematic here. To play safe, better use books from proje

[Bug 1591149] Re: Find more modern text for Italian word prediction

2016-06-10 Thread Andrea Bernabei
another italian here o/ wow I had no idea the predictions were coming from a .txt file, I always thought that they were coming from Nuance's XT9 engine and its vocabularies...but it seems like we're not using XT9, indeed... I only use text predictions to avoid press-holding keys to get to accente