On 1/14/13 3:11 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 1/14/13 2:49 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> What is the current status? Are we still missing dictionaries for any >>> languages in the respin? >>> >> >> we have dictionaries for 4 languages now, and no info which dict to >> bundle for Polish, Swedish, Korean and Norwegian Bokmal >> >> 50% of the new languages will come without a dedicated dict if we get no >> information until let say Wednesday. >> > > Can we simply use whatever dictionary was used with OOo 3.3.0? > OpenOffice is pretty much useless without a spell checking dictionary. > It might be conceivable to release a new translation for an obscure > minority language without a spell checker, as an experimental version. > But for a major language, where we expect millions of downloads, this > would be a support nightmare. Better not to release it at all, IMHO, > than to release without a dictionary.
I tend to agree and I thought it would be not too much effort to provide the info we need. I simply can't say too much about the dictionaries used for a foreign language. But using the ones for 3.3 could be an option. Juergen > > -Rob > > >> So again please provide us the information which dictionary should be >> bundled and is already tested by some volunteers or real users of the >> languages. >> >> Juergen
