On 01/01/11 17:07, Zaphod Feeblejocks wrote: > Why does Thunderbird, which ships with > American English need an extension before it can use a British English > dictionary? Why > can Thunderbird not share a dictionary with LibO. What about Scribus? MSO > users are > used to a shared dictionary across apps.
I *think* Mozilla Thunderbird uses hunspell now, so surely it should be possible to share dictionaries with OOo/LibO. I wonder whether it would be appropriate to launch a new project, under the auspices of The Document Foundation, concerned with language. It could co-ordinate collaboration efforts between organisations like dicollect, wiktionary and alike to produce standardised spelling and grammar dictionaries and thesauruses for use by other projects (that use hunspell). The reason why I suggest a separate project is that, outside of product integration efforts, the standardisation of language requires (I assume) very different skill-sets to those required for coding, and organisations like dicollect and wiktionary are probably best placed to take the lead in that arena. Also, I agree with everything Zaphod said. Kind Regards, Lee Hyde. -- "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" -- Dr. Samuel Johnson (April 7th, 1775) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***