Subject: Re: Spell checking
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 01:55:28 CDT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> >
> > I don't think this is true. I'm sure it was fixed about 5 months ago. If
> > it no longer works we need to fix it. As a general rule you should just
> > have to setenv your LANG environment variable and abi should pick up
> > whatever ispell dictionary is available. If it doesn't we have a problem.
> >
> > For English English I believe en_EN should work.
>
> I can confirm that for Finnish (export LANG=fi_FI) it does NOT work.
>
> It insists on using american.hash no matter what. Then, if you rename
> finnish.hash to american.hash, it tries to use that but complains:
>
> expected magic2 0x9602, got 0x35.
>
> but the file command correctly identifies it as an ispell hash file
> (precisely like it does the original american.hash)!
>
I finally managed to get Abiword to look at British.hash and got the same
result. This requires more digging. Is Heinrik Berg about? He implemented
the multi-language spell checking.
Martin
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