>>>>> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Joost> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> While switching to enchant is a very good idea, I have to warn you
>> that this is not going to happen in 1.4 (unless the patch is really
>> really trivial). So compiling aspell with msvc is worthwhile.

Joost> If Enchant would be an additional supported spell checker next
Joost> to direct aspell and ispell support, would that be acceptable
Joost> for 1.4?

I do not know. It would have to be simple enough and really really
well tested. So let's wait until it is in trunk and proven to work on
all platforms.

And what about hunspell? What are the relations between these things?

We need to catter for OSX too.

Joost> While Aspell is OK for English texts, languages with compound
Joost> words like German and Dutch are not supported very well. Most
Joost> spelling errors it detects are actually Aspell's fault.

But I guess that we will need to provide more context to the spell
checker to actually make it work better.

JMarc

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