Hi Olivier, > I'll update the extension as soon as I get an answer from Laurent Godard > about what we shall do about the roundabout means I use to have 3 > dictionaries for one locale. > > I should have set the same dictionary for all locales. > > Can we expect soon or later a way to switch the dictionary set for one > locale?
I think in the long run it should be possible in the Writing-Aids dialog not to choose the language to use as it is right now but instead which dictionaries to use. And it should allow for more than dictionary per language. That way it would be easy to have specialized dictionaries e.g. for medical or scientific purposes and the user could choose if he wants to use them or not. Another thing that would be possible is to introduce exception dictionaries and thus providing a list of words that should never be regarded as correct and replacement suggestions for those words. Thus getting rid of bad language or at least getting alerted by it's use. This one however would require an extension to the currently used file format. But you can also have the user select between different versions of dictionaries right now! (see explanation below) > For the french, we have three dictionaries. > The french spelling reform of 1990 is not mandatory, and both old and > new spelling are correct. Thus, we have one dictionary for the classical > spelling, one for the new one, and another which considers both spelling > as correct. People usually write according to the old spelling, but > since 2007, the reform is (at least) teached at school. If you want to allow the user to choose which spell checking dictionary he likes to use you have simply to create a separate extension for each of them. This may sound a bit inconvenienced but allows the user to exactly choose what type of dictionary he wants and only to download that one. It may not be what you want to do in the long run but it is the very same you have to do now already if there are several dictionaries for one language to choose from. ^_- However there is one problem! If you have let' say DIC_A and DIC_B for French (fr-FR) and have already installed the extension DIC_A you can not simply switch to DIC_B by just installing DIC_B! In that case it would be undefined which dictionary will get used. Therefore one first needs to deinstall DICT_A before switching to DIC_B. Of course when just updating to a newer version of the same dictionary (e.g. from DIC_A 0.8 to DIC_A 1.1) there will be no such problem. Hope this helps a bit... In the longer run we need that UI to select the dictionaries to use. TL->FL: We should make an appointment with UFI and SBA to discuss about that UI change we need. Better right now than too late. ^_- Will you take care of it? Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
