Re: Win32 Dictionary Installation

Ah, I now understand! (The sarcasm, however, did not help.) I had
noticed the bugs and emails in the past being filed but didn't respond
because I had never actually been able to reproduce it myself. I see
now that it is because I never unchecked installing a dictionary. Your
recently-filed bug report is clear and I can fix this problem - the
issue was I never had a decent characterization of what the problem
actually was.

Unless another dev has a suggestion not to, I'm simply going to always
install that xml file rather than regenerating all the dictionary
installers.

Ryan

Mohammed Ahmed wrote:
> Well, thanks for the overwhelming response, but there is certainly a
> very specific and easily reproducible bug here which appeared
> initially to be a duplicate of many other bugs. For this reason I was
> reluctant to report it, especially after finding a workaround.
>
> If one chooses not to install any dictionaries as an option with the
> main program installer, then ispell_dictionary_list.xml doesn't get
> installed. The dictionary installer only contains a .hash file and
> hence using a standalone dictionary installer at a later date won't
> actually install a functioning dictionary. The main download page on
> the website has a 'Get Dictionaries' link which implies that
> functioning dictionaries can be installed at a later date when they
> can't under this scenario. There's nothing to obviously indicate that
> this behaviour is to be expected and I'd guess that this affects
> dictionaries of all languages, not just British.
>
> There must be quite a few users who would want to be able to install
> dictionaries from a local file after installing the main program for
> all sorts of different reasons. An easy solution would be to install
> ispell_dictionary_list.xml no matter what options one selects in the
> main installer. The xml file is tiny (less than 8k) and it could
> alternatively be included in the dictionary installer instead of the
> main installer in the future.
>
> Reported as bug# 11679
>
> M
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> C Q <chimak_quarg@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> (26/06/2008 02:58)
>
>
>> I'm using the current version of Abiword for Windows and I got the
>> 'failed to load dictionary' error several times when trying to install
>> the British dictionary. I couldn't resolve this issue by reinstalling
>> and this has been the case since version 2.6.1 when I started using
>> the program.
>>
>> After a bit of googling I found the problem was that there is no
>> ispell_dictionary_list.xml file installed by the dictionary installer.
>> I managed to get hold of the required .xml file from the internet and
>> put this in AbiSuite2\dictionary and this makes everything work
>> correctly. The dictionary installer installs the .hash file, but
>> doesn't even contain the .xml file - I know this because I extracted
>> the contents of AbiWord_Dictionary_British.exe
>>
>> I'm not sure if this issue affects all Windows users, but I've seen
>> many bug reports about dictionaries not installing properly under
>> Windows. I've made my own installer for the British dictionary, maybe
>> whoever assembles the Win32 dictionary installers can sort this
>> out for others.
>>
>> M
>>
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