I only see Portuguese (Portugal) and Protuguese (Brazil) in the list of supported languages on Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business. Because the language pack is not installed on my machine, I went to the download site and discovered that the language packs are sold by Microsoft for $25 per language. I decided not to spend the money to find out if there was anything that allowed choice between pre- and post- reform languages.
- Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Marco A.G.Pinto [mailto:marcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 02:35 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Double dictionaries for languages Microsoft Office 2010 allows users to select between Portuguese pre-reform and Portuguese post-reform. I would be great if AOO would allow that too. Kind regards, >Marco A.G.Pinto ----------------------- On 18-01-2012 01:55, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: If they've registered a separate language code for one or the other, that should be the answer. Also, is the agreement just with respect to pt-PT or does it apply to pt-BR, etc.? Both dictionaries could be added to the same OXT, just as is done for en-*, but somehow the user has to have a way to choose the appropriate one for a given circumstance. Who knows whether the agreement includes identifiers for use in handling electronic documents and dictionaries? Or has pre-agreement been declared obsolete? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 14:40 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Double dictionaries for languages On 07/01/2012 Marco A.G.Pinto wrote: Portuguese has suffered a language agreement and now there are two kinds of my language: - pre-agreement - post-agreement... The language is still the same and just the dictionary is changed. Could this be implemented into AOO? I think (but I haven't checked with a recent build, and I'm not 100% sure) that multiple dictionaries for the same language are supported and are merged (i.e., if you enable both an "old spelling" and a "new spelling" dictionary, words of either dictionary will be accepted). As for switching between dictionaries, the easiest way I see is installing separate extensions: there is no suitable user interface yet, unfortunately. There's always the hack of defining two separate locales and assigning one to the "old spelling" and one to the "new spelling" to change them in real time like American English and British English, but forcing this configuration would break interoperability. Regards, Andrea. --
