On 19.06.2012 18:37, Stuart Swales wrote:
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Please don't merrily discard the English language variant dictionaries -
they are really really important.
The reason for wanting to drop some of the english extensions is not a
disregard for (of?) the english language and its variants. In older
versions of OpenOffice only the dict-en extension was included. It is
probably my fault that there are now five dictionary extensions.
I added the functionality for downloading and integrating the extensions
into the installation sets and used the information on [1] to setup the
initial list of extensions to bundle. Maybe the time has come to reduce
that list to what is really needed.
dict-en seems to support the variants (AU,CA,GB,US,ZA). I say "seems"
because I am neither a linguist nor do I have information beyond what
the pages in the extension repository provide (see links to english
dictionaries on [1]). I don't know if the separate dictionaries for
AU,NZ,CA, and US contain anything that is not already included in dict-en.
If you or anybody else have/has more information then please share that
with the rest of us so that we can make a decision based on facts
whether to keep or to drop the extensions.
-Andre
[1]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Bundled+Writing+Aids
