On 19/02/2009 08:11, Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
Hi eleonora,
I don't know who dreamed up this "all language" dictionary but
I don't know that myself. ^^
I think
it's one of the most facile, imbecilic ideas I've heard in a very long
time. Have the developers nothing better to do with their time?
Not exactly (remember that it is only about user-dictionaries, not about
default hunspell dictionaries). For example if you have a look in the
user-dictionary named 'sun', then you will find the following words:
- Adabas
- OpenOffice.org
- Webcast
...
It is a very convenient way to make sure that e.g. 'OpenOffice.org' will
always be regarded as correct even though it may not be part in any
hunspell dicitonary.
'Langugae-all' dictionaries do make sense to customize upon the existing
hunspell dictionaries. That they get either used/created by the provider
(here as part of OOo) or by the user himself.
Are "Adabas" and "Webcast" spelled that way in Russian? Is "Webcast" the
same in French (who even translated the verbs in COBOL)? What about
words like "webcast" and "intranet"; are they really the same in *all*
languages? Would they not be spelled with capital initial letters
("Webcast" and "Intranet") in German, for example, even if the words
themselves were not translated?
Having a set of "all language" dictionaries clutters the code with
special cases (boo, hiss) and causes all sorts of ridiculous
controversies. It also slows down the search because OOo has to look in
at least two dictionaries even though the user only wants one. Why not
just publish a "suggested list" of words [parts of] which dictionary
implementers can include or not as appropriate?
On the other hand, as already mentioned elsewhere, I don't think they do
make much sense as regular dictionary source for the spell checker. They
should be maintained only by the provider or user.
Yes. Here we agree ;-)
And the only reason for me asking for hunspell support for them is to
allow for a implementation change of the user-dictionary format to one
directly readable by hunspell. This is purely to not loose functionality
when changing the format.
Simply removing the whole concept from OOo would simplify the code and
allow the "central team" of developers to get on with more fruitful work.
Thomas
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