Shaun McDonald wrote:
> Hi Graham,
> On 13 Mar 2007, at 16:46, Graham Lauder wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> A large Corporate client of mine has offered to host and manage a "My
>> Thesaurus"  setup  on one of their company servers.  This includes using
>> one of their staff who is familiar with php and MYSQL to manage it.  The
>> Thesaurus will be for  "Commonwealth" English, ie  en_GB and it's
>> variants en_NZ , en_ZA, en_AU and so forth.
>
> Please be aware of the issue:
> <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66919> as the user
> interface elements of the various non-US English locales are not
> properly translated.
>
> Also at the moment there are only 3 English variants available:
> en-US
> en-GB
> en-ZA
>
> Shaun

Hey Shaun,

There is in fact an en_AU one that is based on the GB one.
(http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries#English_.28United_Kingdom.2C_....29)
(http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oooau/)
This is the one we've used in the companies custom OOo build and it
works fine.  The reason we need a specific NZ one is that there are many
Maori words that have made their way into everyday use in NZ.  So for
instance in an NZ thesaurus, a synonym for "good" would be "kapai", for
food; kai, for broken: patu.  in an en_UK or en_US thesaurus these would
be nonsense.  All these words are included in the en_NZ spellcheck
dictionaries.  The idea is to set up a My Thesaurus en_NZ server and
then add the others as and if needed.

Most people tend to use the en_US interface with the en_other
dictionaries and Thes.  That's what we are doing at this point.



Cheers
GL

>
>>
>> Unfortunately my skills in this area are nil, and he would like to
>> discuss this  with one of the Lingucomponent Project Leads or someone
>> else more familiar with My Thesaurus than me.
>>
>> Mail me direct and I'll pass on his email address.
>>
>> --Graham Lauder,


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