Just to touch base. I think the situation was that NEW dictionaries couldn't be added, because licensing issues were still being worked out. Is this still true?
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Thomas Lange - Oracle <thomas.la...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > To all who' like to provide an update to an existing dictionary > extension: please prepare the extension update and file an issue with a > download link to the updated extension. Best would be if this could be > done until Tuesday next week. > > Notes: > > 1) If you want to support ligatures with your extension then please read > the short thread named 'spell check dictionaries and ligatures'. Namely > please note that the dictionary needs to be converted to UTF-8 encoding > in order for the solution with ICONV to work. > > 2) Reminder: Since OOo 3.2 the simple Ascii dash/minus '-' is reagarded > as part of the word for spell checking purposes. Before OOo 3.2 the > dictionaries needed to add the left and right part of such a word/text > as separate entries in order to not get the word (or better part of it) > to be marked as incorrect. Since OOo 3.2 you can clean up the dictionary > by omitting the partial words and only listing the full words, thus > getting rid of 'not real word' entries in the dictionary that often may > result in odd or even misspelled suggestions from the spell checker if > similar text patterns get encountered. > > For example: previoulsy you would have needed 'U' + 'turn' and 'X' + > 'ray' whereas you can now simply use 'U-turn' and 'X-Ray'. > > Though this type of problem is probably more eminent in other languages > than English. ;-) > > > Regards, > Thomas > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org > > -- Neskie Manuel http://neskiemanuel.ath.cx Voicemail: 1 (866)-423-0911 Tel: (250) 434-5734 SIP: m...@sip.ca2.link2voip.com Skype: neskiemanuel Twitter: @neskiem Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/neskie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
