Andy Pepperdine <andy <at> pepperdine.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 02:13, Kelvin Eldridge wrote: > > Hi, <snip> > > Recently as a result of this work I retested how OpenOffice.org handles > > hyphenated words and found it doesn't work as I expected. > > > > For example, the term bric-a-brac is in the Australian English dictionary > > for OpenOffice.org, is in the Macquarie dictionary, and recognised > > correctly by Microsoft Word. It is not handled correctly in OpenOffice.org. > > I can confirm this in the UK English dictionary too. My dictionaries are > Collins English Dictionary (CED), Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (CH20) and > the Oxford Etymological Dictionary (OxEt). The OOo (2.0.4) spell checker > fails on bric-a-brac (CED), bricabrac (Ch20) and bric-à-brac (Ch20, OxEt). > > It also fails on spick-and-span (Ch20). > > And higgledy-piggledy is accepted as are the two separate parts, when in fact, > neither (to my knowledge) should be allowed alone. > > > > OpenOffice.org appears to check each word as being correct and ignores the > > hyphens. > > That's consistent with the above examples. > > > > I would like to raise an enhancement request for hyphenated words to be > > handled correctly for Australian English. > > Or any language; please don't be so parochial
Not meaning to appear parochial;-) My aim was to be very specific so the developers can reproduce the issue easily. I can't be sure the examples I use are in other language files, or whether other English speaking regions use hyphens to a greater or lesser extent:-( I also noticed issues have been raised for non English languages in Issuezilla, but these do not solve the issue for Australians (or other English speaking countries). > > > > Could a second person using Australian English please confirm this is an > > issue. > > > > I have checked Issuezilla and not found an appropriate issue. If someone > > knows if an issue has been raised please let me know. > > If you raise one, please let us know. I'll comment on it, but I can see that > it may not be so easy to fix, and there are more important things for the > developers to do. It's quite difficult to find examples from one's own head, > so it may not be very serious. > You picked a very good example with higgledy-piggledy. This is valid because each word is entered in the dictionary as well as the hyphenated version. If "higgledy" and "piggledy" are not valid words (they are not listed in the Macquarie dictionary either) then invalid words have been added to the dictionary to get around the limitation in OpenOffice.org. I've raised the following issue after further reviewing Issuezilla. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73316 Issue 64400 appears close, but appears to use what I think may be the wrong approach and thus won't work for Australian English. Please feel free to add your own comments and thanks for the feedback.. Kelvin Eldridge OpenOffice.org Australian English dictionary creator/maintainer. www.JustLocal.com.au (Links to dictionary file pages located at the bottom of the page.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
