Hi Martin, Any news about outstanding legal reviews for dictionaries? (see below)
Thomas On 20.09.2010 02:28, Neskie Manuel wrote: > 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 >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
