On 28/12/2015 20:31, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
For example, the Mozilla dictionary only knows "zucchini", whereas the
add-on dictionary also knows "Zulu" and other words starting with
"zu". I'd hate to think that we'd need to create 7265 bugs to add all
the missing words.
OK, I was wrong, this is more confusing. The respective files are not
sorted, so Zulu is in fact in the Mozilla version. The difference in
numbers is not only due to more words but also to different affix rules.
However, after sorting I was able to spot a few words the Mozilla
version is lacking:
residuary reproachfulness relict reformism enforceability makefile lycopod
(I'm using a en-GB dictionary while writing this post, and all the words
listed above are actually in that dictionary, with the exception of
lycopod which should be lycopodium).
Looking for en-US.dic files on my system, I can see that for Thunderbird
31 a dictionary that was slightly bigger than the current one was
shipped, and this dictionary included residuary reproachfulness relict
enforceability, so I wonder how that got lost.
I think I've made my point: We're investing time and effort to
ultimately ship an inferior product. Mozilla should leave the
maintenance of dictionary to a third party.
Jorg K.
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