Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
Hi,
Harold Fuchs wrote:
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Isn't there a *configurable* list of languages and associated
dictionaries
Sure. Associating a dictionary to one or more languages can be done in
the extension itself.
However you can't simply define new language entries on your own. After
all those need to be available in UI as well, and that for example
requires translation.
Why does a new language have to be available in UI? Are you really
saying that *every* spelling dictionary has its own UI as well?
Also in order to be functional in OOo languages
need to have a valid ISO language code assigned to them (e.g. 'en-US',
'fr-BE', ...).
If there isn't an ISO code, that's not a problem for OOo. That's a
problem for negotiation between the extension's author and the ISO. Is
the developer of a dictionary extension made fully aware of this
requirement?
And in order to be compatible with older MS file formats each language
also needs to have an integer value to represent it, and that one can't
be chosen arbitrary. Usually you have to stick with the languages MS
already has defined. You can't even easily use yet unused values since
they might get used in the future and then you will have a serious
import/export problem if that value would already be used in OOo but for
a different language.
Why does a new language have to be compatible with [an old version of]
MS? If it's a new language then, by definition it's not supported by old
versions of MS
(and "name", for the title bar)? In a "resources" file of
some sort? Shouldn't there be?
Thomas
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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