I'm a developer of AbiWord which uses either ispell or Aspell for spellchecking, depending on what is available on the machine building AbiWord.
I recently reworked AbiWord's Aspell support so that it now works on Windows as well as on Linux and I'm now adding/enhancing features to our spelling support. One such feature is to display an icon next to each language in our language dialog to indicate the level of spelling support for that language. Ideally we want to know "language is supported but not installed", "language is supported and installed", and "language is not supported at all". To achieve this efficiently, we need to be able to ask Aspell which languages it supports, this means an enumeration API to return all supported language tags: en, de, fr or en-US, en-GB, en-AU etc. We also need an API which will tell us whether a given language is installed or not. Currently we can just try to open each dictionary but we would prefer a less expensive API which does not have to initialize an entire spelling engine which is only going to be destructed again. Comment and feedback appreciated. Andrew Dunbar. ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl http://www.abisource.com ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
