[discuss] Re: hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-18 Thread Russell Butler
open officecanada wrote: Hi folks, I am a Canadian speaking and writing 4 languages and upon trying to install a german language pack I realised that parts of it got called "hun-spell". I wonder who the idiot was who came up with "hun-spell" for the german language pack in the first place. I gue

[discuss] Re: hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-18 Thread Russell Butler
KAMI wrote: Hello! Hunspell is derivated from MySpell but it improved much. First time it was better for Hungarian language and it maintained the compatibility with myspell. Later - Mr. Németh - integrated more and more useful and more advanced features like: (snip) http://hunspell.sour

[discuss] Re: hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Smith
Bernd Eilers wrote: Don´t get upset about the name it´s just the name of the spell checker software and name for the related format of the dictonary files and has nothing to do with the language being checked. And the "hun" in it is an abbreviation for "hungaria". ... You know, Jaques may h

[discuss] Re: hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-28 Thread Ken Cushing
I had no idea it had a negative connotation. I had to look it up: http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/hun.htm Now I now better. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/19/2007 8:48:12 AM >>> Bernd Eilers wrote: > > Don´t get upset about the name it´s just the name of the spell checker > software and name for th

Re: [discuss] Re: hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-18 Thread KAMI
Hello! Hunspell is derivated from MySpell but it improved much. First time it was better for Hungarian language and it maintained the compatibility with myspell. Later - Mr. Németh - integrated more and more useful and more advanced features like: - Unicode support (first 65535 Unicode chara