Hi Sophie, Sophie wrote:
> Hi Mathias, > Mathias Bauer wrote: >> Sophie wrote: >> >>> Hi Eike, >>> >>> In an exchange with Goran this summer, you discussed the support of >>> RFC4646 tags and ODF 1.2 attribute enhancements to add more than one >>> language variant or dialects. This is not supported currently in OOo. >>> You said also that you need time to workout a concept to pass tags and >>> script to API structure. >>> >>> Do you have an idea of when this support will be added to OOo? It's not >>> to put pressure on your shoulders, only to have an idea :) >>> >>> The issue we face in FR project is different than Goran one, this is we >>> have more than one spelling allowed for a same word and need to let the >>> choice of two spellcheckers to the user. >> >> That looks as if it was something completely different. Maybe Metadata >> would be a solution for that problem? > > How would it work? For me spell checkers are dependent from the locale > and OOo does not allow for more that one language variant per locale. Yes, in OOo the spellchecker (or the dictionary) depends on the locale only and that is the problem for e.g. Serbian or Mongolian where it also should depend on the script type (that OOo does not support at all except for some hard coded scripts with an also hardcoded table which locale uses which script type). This problem could be solved by supporting script types and including script types in the selection of the applied dictionary. It wouldn't help for your problem with using different French Dictionaries for different parts of the text that both have the same locale and the same script type but some different semantics, history or whatever. This might be solvable with RFC 4646. I didn't read it but I take your word for that. :-) That's why I meant that Goran's problem is something different than yours. Choosing the spell checker based on e.g. semantic or style considerations is a special "application logic" or "user logic" that is applied on the text, it's a kind of markup for the text. If OOo allowed to save this markup somewhere and had an API to access it, a spellchecker component could use this to make the dictionary that shall be applied to the text a persistent information. Using ODF Metadata could be an option as applying semantic information to document content is one of its primary motivations. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "nospamfor...@gmx.de". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@l10n.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@l10n.openoffice.org
