Subject: Re: Patch: nl-NL support
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 21:47:09 CDT
Frodo Looijaard wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I have attached a patch that should enable stuff for dutch speakers,
> but I would like to have somebody look at it who knows a bit more about
> this aspect of abiword.
>
> Several comments:
> * In the ispell dictionary I use, there is a dutch93.hash and a
> dutch96.hash file, due to the spellings reform here. I don't know
> what most distributions do - I have used `dutch96.hash', but if it
> turns out that (almost) all distributions rename it to `dutch.hash',
> we should change the system.profile and ispell_checker.cpp diles.
> * Somebody used `da-NL' as localename, but the proper name is `nl-NL'.
> I have changed this in ut_Language.c. The `strings'-file should be
> renamed too, from du-NL.strings to nl-NL.strings. Is it enough to
> do so and changeathe language attribute in the root element? Should
> abi2po be rerun? I just don't know.
>
> A more general question: I sometimes need the dutch spell checking, but
> I don't want to use the nl-NL locale (mostly because I want AbiWord itself
> to talk english to me, not dutch). How does one do this? I see a
> Format/Language menu item, but it has nothing behind it. What is its status?
> Is it just not implemented in the Gnome build, or is there an issue
> with my installation?
I think this is a case for a "GUI Language" setting in preferences
that I just mentioned elsewhere.
Andrew.
> And yet another question: is it possible to specify somewhere where
> abiword will look for ispell dictionaries? My current hack is to link
> the abiword dictionary directory to /usr/lib/ispell, but that is not a
> very elegant solution.
>
> Thanks,
> Frodo
>
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