Brilliant! That worked perfectly, and was delivered much faster than I
expected.
I had to hunt around a bit to find where those files are found on a
Mac deployment, so I will share the details for anyone else on the
list interested in trying it:
Right-click (or control-click) on the XMLEditor.app application and
choose ?Show Package Contents? in the contextual menu. Let?s call that
directory ?Contents?. Then xsc.jar goes in Contents/Resources/Java and
en.dar goes in Contents/Resources/addon/spell (and note that when Mail
downloaded the file it added an extra ".jar" to the filename, but I
noticed this and renamed "en.dar.jar" to "en.dar" before replacing the
existing file).
I kept the old files around in an archive directory just in case, and
will keep the downloads around to use when I install updated versions
of XXE, until I see in the release notes that the feature has become
officially supported, or they become incompatible with a future
release. Hopefully they will become unnecessary before they become
incompatible. :)
Thanks so much, Mr Shafie.
-Jim
On Jan 30, 2009, at 13:41, Hussein Shafie wrote:
> James Elliott wrote:
>> I would like to clarify this feature request:
>>
>> Even if you are not able to update the default dictionary to include
>> versions of words like ?aren?t? using real apostrophe Unicode
>> characters, at least make it possible for me to add them to my own
>> custom dictionary.
>>
>> The fundamental problem I face today is that the spell checking code
>> does not recognize a real apostrophe character as a valid word
>> element. It thinks ?aren?t? ends at the ?n? so I cannot even add it
>> to
>> my dictionary.
>>
>> Is there a workaround for this? If not, could I make an urgent (to
>> me,
>> that is) request for this to be fixed?
>>
>
> Please download the following files:
> ---
> http://www.pixware.fr/_download/apostrophe_en/xsc.jar
> 115063bytes, Fri Jan 30 08:25:53 PM CET 2009
>
> http://www.pixware.fr/_download/apostrophe_en/en.dar
> 316349bytes, Fri Jan 30 08:26:36 PM CET 2009
> ---
>
> [1] Replace XXE_install_dir/bin/xsc.jar by the downloaded xsc.jar
>
> This new xsc.jar saves personal dictionaries using the UTF-8 encoding.
> The stock xsc.jar saves personal dictionaries using the ISO-8859-1
> encoding.
>
> [2] Replace XXE_install_dir/addon/spell/en.dar by the downloaded
> en.dar
>
> This new en.dar considers the real apostrophe (copied from the email
> you
> sent us) as %noninitial and %nonfinal character in addition to '-',
> '.',
> "'".
>
> *IMPORTANT* you'll have to do that for each new release of XMLmind XML
> Editor until we find the good strategy to solve your problem. The
> downloaded xsc.jar and en.dar are guaranteed to be compatible with the
> future releases.
>
> [3] Just to avoid possible problems, we also recommend to delete all
> your current personal dictionaries. These dictionaries are found in
> directory XXE_user_preferences_dir/spell/
>
> where XXE_user_preferences_dir/ is:
>
> * $HOME/.xxe4/ on Linux.
> * $HOME/Library/Application Support/XMLmind/XMLEditor4/ on the Mac.
> * %APPDATA%\XMLmind\XMLEditor4\ on Windows 2000, XP, Vista.
>
> Example: C:\Documents and Settings\john\Application
> Data\XMLmind\XMLEditor4\ on Windows 2000 and XP.
> C:\Users\john\AppData\Roaming\XMLmind\XMLEditor4\ on Windows Vista.
>
>
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