Subject: Re: localization formats proposal
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 23:03:15 CDT
--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <huftis@bigfoot.com> wrote: >
fr 20 jul 2001 05:17:25, Andrew Dunbar
> <hippietrail@yahoo.com>:
>
> > No we don't do this but I feel the need to rant
> > against it once in a while in case somebody might
> > think it's a good idea.
>
> :)
>
> > What it boils down to is that we ship with the
> > American hash but not the British hash. I
> strongly
> > feel the British hash has much more widespread use
> in
> > all but one English speaking country as a
> reasonable
> > stand-in for our own English dialects - which seem
> not
> > to have ispell/pspell dictionaries available.
> > A good fix would be something roughly like this:
> > * Ship with both American and British
> dicitonaries.
> > (Or have a package including British instead)
>
> Or ship with none, so that users can download the
> dictionaries
> they need. There could be a link to each dictionary
> on the
> download page. (This will also reduce the size of
> the installer,
> which is a good thing. And people who use ispell or
> have
> downloaded AbiWord previously will already have the
> necessary
> dictionaries.)
I hereby vote for this idea (:
Andrew.
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