Re: Spellcheck in non-English language

As I mentioned, this does not matter as long as an Enchant-supported
system spellchecker with dictionary is installed, since Mihail is using
a Linux setup.

Ryan

lchaput@istar.ca wrote:
>
>
> Mihail, also there is no Bulgarian dictioary in the Windows section at
> http://www.abisource.com/download/
>
> Luc
>
>
> mihail@riseup.net a écrit :
>
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I have AbiWord installed on a BeaFanatIX linux setup. I want to spell
>> check in a non-English langauge (Bulgarian).
>>
>> I went to the Internationalization FAQ:
>> http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/IntlFaqSpellChecking
>>
>> What I found there was totally confusing:
>>
>> (i) first it says: 'See IntlFaqChangingLanguage to set the default
>> document language'. There is mention of Windows and Unix (where it says
>> 'use something like' - not exactly computing speak if you ask me) but
>> not
>> Linux.
>>
>> (ii) further down it says: 'There is a large number of abispell packages
>> provided for various language. You can download the package for your
>> language from http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword'. But this link
>> simply goes to sourceforge where you can download the whole of
>> abiword. No
>> individual options are given.
>>
>> (iii) Finally, we have 'Note: Debian uses aspell dictionaries, dont
>> forget
>> to install them'. OK, so I think this is for me as BeaFanatIX is a
>> branch
>> of Ubuntu is a branch of Debian. But this is hardly a full
>> instruction of
>> what I should be doing ...
>>
>> If anyone does know how I can spellcheck in a language other than
>> English
>> and what I should do I would be very grateful if they could tell me.
>>
>> It would also be helpful then to change the FAQ so others know what
>> to do
>> in future.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mihail
>>
>>
>>
>

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Received on Fri Jun 1 00:37:34 2007