Hi everybody our friend Minh Nguyen has improved the Hunspell dictionaries and released a XPI extension for Firefox and Thunderbird.
I've added the extension to our spellchecker wiki http://code.google.com/p/hunspell-spellcheck-vi/ where you can see instructions about how to get it and install it. Please send some feedback. I think Minh has done a great job about it. Best Regards. Ivan Garcia. Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Ivan, > > I've repackaged your Hunspell-based Vietnamese spell checker as a > Firefox/Thunderbird extension. I haven't gotten a chance to publish it > to addons.mozilla.org or anything yet, but if you have Subversion > <http://subversion.tigris.org/> installed, you can check out the > project from my repository: > > svn co http://version.1ec5.org/viewvc.cgi/vi_dictionary/ > > You can also view the source > <http://version.1ec5.org/viewvc.cgi/vi_dictionary/> online. Included > in the trunk/ > <http://version.1ec5.org/viewvc.cgi/vi_dictionary/trunk/> directory is > a build.sh script, which produces a ready-to-install .xpi package for > the extension. I've tested it in Firefox 3 RC1, but nothing else yet. > > The extension provides two dictionaries: one that accepts only the new > style of accent marks (e.g., /xo?/), and one that accepts only the old > style (/x?a/). I also removed a few misspelled words, which are noted > in the dictionary files' commit logs, and modified several others > using regular expressions. To convert the mostly-new-style word list > to use old-style accent marks, I wrote a fun little tool > <http://version.1ec5.org/viewvc.cgi/vi_dictionary/trunk/tests/sequences.html> > that automatically types the words into a textbox, using AVIM > <http://avim.veneroida.com/> to handle the conversion. Quite a hack, > but it works. :-) (You'll need to place a recent copy of AVIM in the > same directory as avim.js, I didn't commit it because it's not > licensed under the GPL.) > > I've also added a few rules to the .aff files, but it probably needs > more work. For example, /x?a/ under the new dictionary doesn't list > /xo?/ as one of the top five suggestions. > > I plan to publish the extension sometime in the next couple weeks. I > hope it'll be useful for your efforts with Vinalinux. > > Minh Nguyen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am working on an unofficial 2.0 localization, but it'll take some >> time, since I'm only working on it when I'm not tied up with work or >> schoolwork. If anyone would be willing to help out, that'd be great. >> For spellchecking, Mozilla uses MySpell, which to my knowledge >> doesn't support Vietnamese. If licensing isn't an issue, Aspell has a >> Vietnamese dictionary <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html> >> under the LGPL, though I haven't tried it yet. Mozilla seems to be >> transitioning to Hunspell, which I presume is what you're working on. >> The relevant bug is 319778 >> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319778>, which has a >> patch awaiting review. Hope this helps. >> >> Ivan Garcia wrote: >>> Hello Minh, >>> my name is Ivan Garcia, i'm Spanish but living in Ho Chi Minh City >>> from 7 month ago, I'm founder of vinalinux.com, a non-profit linux >>> distribution for vietnamese, and very soon we will pack a >>> full-vietnamese distribution and we would like to know what is your >>> localization of thunderbird going, are you working for the 2.0 version? >>> >>> What do you know about spell checking in vietnamese for mozilla? I'm >>> working in the spell checking for OpenOffice. >>> >>> Best wishes. >>> Ivan Garcia. >> -- >> Minh Nguyen <mxn at zoomtown.com> >> AIM: trycom2000; Jabber: mxn at myjabber.net; Blog: http://mxn.f2o.org/ > -- > Minh Nguyen <mxn at zoomtown.com> > AIM: trycom2000; Jabber: mxn at 1ec5.org; Blog: http://notes.1ec5.org/
