To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=101716
Issue #|101716
Summary|Support for spell checking, hyphenation and thesarus f
|or English (Eire) en_IE
Component|lingucomponent
Version|OOO310m10
Platform|All
URL|
OS/Version|All
Status|UNCONFIRMED
Status whiteboard|
Keywords|
Resolution|
Issue type|ENHANCEMENT
Priority|P3
Subcomponent|spell checking
Assigned to|iss...@lingucomponent
Reported by|barry_carroll
------- Additional comments from barry_carr...@openoffice.org Sat May 9
21:10:52 +0000 2009 -------
Hello, I tried to search for this issue but I didn't manage to find an existing
issue report.
This is a request for enhancement.
Rationale:
==========
The vast majority of people in Ireland speak English as their primary
language. Most computers in Ireland would have their locale set to en_IE
accordingly. We speak the same set of the English language that British users
would use.
By default Openoffice will not perform spellchecking 'out of the box' if it
detects en_IE as the locale. I acknowledge that this can be overridden in
Language settings by setting the default language to English (British).
I believe that greater usability would be realised through making sure that
users get the spell-checking out of the box which might help to convince them to
stay with openoffice.
I have had experience with family and friends who will not use openoffice
because they think there is no spell-checking and for less technical users it
doesn't take much to put them off trying it out.
Suggested Solution
==================
I patched the 'dictionaries.xcu' file contained in the 'dict-en.oxt' extension
that ships with the 3.1 english installer on both windows and linux. I patched
the file before installation.
I have tested with Vista SP1 32-bit and Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 32 bit and the patch
results in en_IE being supported out of the box (aliased to en_GB really) which
is the experience that I was looking for.
Is it possible or permissible for something like this to be integrated into your
installer please?
The patch follows:
--- dictionaries.xcu 2009-05-09 21:24:28.430818358 +0100
+++ dictionaries_patched.xcu 2009-05-09 21:25:09.211165168 +0100
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<value>DICT_SPELL</value>
</prop>
<prop oor:name="Locales" oor:type="oor:string-list">
- <value>en-GB</value>
+ <value>en-GB en-IE</value>
</prop>
</node>
<node oor:name="HunSpellDic_en-ZA" oor:op="fuse">
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
<value>DICT_HYPH</value>
</prop>
<prop oor:name="Locales" oor:type="oor:string-list">
- <value>en-GB en-US en-ZA en-AU en-CA</value>
+ <value>en-GB en-US en-ZA en-AU en-CA en-IE</value>
</prop>
</node>
<node oor:name="ThesDic_en-US" oor:op="fuse">
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
<value>DICT_THES</value>
</prop>
<prop oor:name="Locales" oor:type="oor:string-list">
- <value>en-GB en-US en-ZA en-AU en-CA</value>
+ <value>en-GB en-US en-ZA en-AU en-CA en-IE</value>
</prop>
</node>
</node>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from
Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments.
http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org
For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
