Re: Aspell and Enchant are NOT compliant

Ok, so please create a patch or file a bug @ http://bugzilla.abisource.com/

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Zé <mmodem00@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In portuguese we have some variants, and to avoid that, in 1990 there
> was an agreement between Portugal and Brasil so that could exist some
> unification regarding some rules, since brasil had decided some time
> ago that the non spoken consonants could be removed from writting, so
> for example with word:
> "projecto" started being written as "projeto"
>
> since the "c" is a letter not spokened.
>
> So due to this in Portugal currently exist 2 dictionaries, the regular
> that complies the ortographic agreement from 1990 and the dictionary
> that already existed before, currently we can writte both ways
> regarding non spoken consonants.
>
> Regarding this the Portuguese University of Letters decided to keep
> both dictionaries so we have aspell-pt and aspell-pt-preao ->
> http://natura.di.uminho.pt/download/sources/Dictionaries/aspell6
>
> Now both KDE and GNOME use enchant and enchant isnt letting that both
> dictionaries can be listed, when having both installed it only
> appears:
>
> Português (Portugal)
>
> not allowing any reference to the pt-preao dictionary.
>
> Even if having just the package aspell-pt-preao installed it doesnt
> refer thats a pt-preao dictionary, but the dictionary still works.
>
> If having also package aspell-pt_BR that in the configuration KDE and
> GNOME dialogs its listed as:
>
> Português (Brasil)
>
> For what i can see enchant allows pt_PT and pt_BR but does NOT allow pt_PT-preao
> Dont understand why enchant allows xx_XX and does NOT allow xx_XX-foo,
> is there some rule not allowing a country to have more than one dictionary?
>
> To do some tests i have created a symlink so that the files
> /usr/lib/aspell/*pt_PT-preao* could point to
> /usr/lib/aspell/*pt_PREAO*
>
> and this seams to resolve some problems, since now the dictionary
> pt-preao is both listed in KDE and GNOME and it works.
>
> Of course this is not a correct name, since for what aspell says the
> name should follow *lang_VARIANT-dicversion* and when i run aspell it
> lists both PT dictionaries:
>
> ~]# aspell dicts
> pt_PT
> pt_PT-preao
>
> but encant IS NOT COMPLIANT with aspell, thus not allowing the a
> country can have more than one dictionary, and since both KDE and
> GNOME use enchant this is a MAJOR problem.
>
> Can this be reviewed so that aspell and enchant can be compliant?
>
>
> TIA
> --
> Zé
>

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