Hello,

I Just wanted to say this is great news that an official English
dictionaries update will be maintained on the Extensions website.

I had a user ask me recently on the community forums how they could get an
English dictionary because they lived in France and had that version of the
installer.  I ended up just privately sending them the extension that is
unpacked in the install directory, and only realised then that this was a
bit of loophole.

Regards
Robert Black

2008/11/27 Marcin Miłkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Kevin Atkinson pisze:
>
>  On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Marcin Mikowski wrote:
>>
>>  Kevin Atkinson pisze:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Marcin Mi?kowski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  who is responsible now for maintaining the official en_US dictionary
>>>>>> for OOo? There is an extension on the extension website but it's a bit 
>>>>>> older
>>>>>> than the version distributed with OOo, so it cannot be considered an 
>>>>>> update
>>>>>> (it also has a wrong version scheme). Ideally, the extension should 
>>>>>> become a
>>>>>> bit more official (so that the maintainer could be assigned issues in IZ 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> update it) and the dictionary should be brought in sync with the current
>>>>>> distributed version (I've just found an error in it - it contains a
>>>>>> non-dictionary word 'underly' that is absent in all spelling 
>>>>>> dictionaries I
>>>>>> have access to - or marked as a typo).
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am responsible for the contents of the dictionary but Németh László <
>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> is responsible for actually creating the
>>>>> release. See "Additional Information" at
>>>>> http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Until a new official dictionary (or extension) is released you can use
>>>> en en_US dictionary I created for Mozilla which you can find attached to
>>>> this bug report:
>>>>  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397150
>>>> or download it directly:
>>>>  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=290079
>>>>
>>>> I am going to email Németh László to work out how to create new official
>>>> dictionary.
>>>>
>>>
>>> As far as I understand the new process, it should be created as an
>>> extension. The problem is that there is already an en-US dictionary
>>> extension there, so you might want to contact its maintainer to make him/her
>>> responsible for updates (as Laci seems to be sufficiently busy doing lots of
>>> work on hunspell).
>>>
>>
>> And how will I do that, he does not provide any way to contact him that I
>> can see other than posting a public comment (and yes I logged in).
>>
>
> I've checked the ID of the extension offered - it's not the same as the
> official dicts: org.openoffice.en.hunspell.dictionaries, so another,
> official English dictionary extension can be built by the official
> maintainers, which is you, Laci, or anyone else you think fit for the role.
> It would be then picked up during update, and, according to the plan that
> was posted here on this list some time ago, the extensions will be
> automatically updated in OOo (=added to the source codebase) based on the
> extension website in the future.
>
>
> Regards,
> Marcin
>
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