Harri Pitkänen wrote: > Not related to the discussion you were having, but I have good news for you > on > this particular matter. As of December 2006 there has been an open > source "dictionary" for Finnish that is of pretty good quality: > > http://kaino.kotus.fi/sanat/nykysuomi/kotus-sanalista-v1.tar.gz > > This contains 94 110 entries and has been released under the LGPL by the > Research Institute for the Languages of Finland. As far as I know (which is > not much), this is the same stuff they license commercially for language > technology companies, so having it available under the LGPL is something I am > quite happy about. > > Unfortunately that is not a hunspell dictionary but a XML file with words and > inflection classes. This is not yet enough to build a spell checker. For this > purpose we are developing (under the GPL) software and dictionary database > that also takes advantage of the above mentioned data and our own additions: > > http://voikko.sourceforge.net/
So are you planning to ask for replacing hunspell as OOo spell checker by your new spell checker? > This software is already recognising over 99 % of words in typical Finnish > text and is starting to slowly replace the previous non-free spell checking > alternative for OOo. It is shipped in some Linux distros too, at least in > Debian, Ubuntu, and Mandriva. What "non-free" spell checking alternative are you talking about? Sorry, but I don't know the Finnish OOo version. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
