https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168665
--- Comment #17 from Eike Rathke (retired, only occasionally showing up) <[email protected]> --- (In reply to [email protected] from comment #16) > If the language hasn’t localization, it is necessary to find it in a tricky > way and in a hidden place. I know that trick now, and You do too, but even > the All Knowing Been in this world, Saint Google, doesn’t know it. You don't even need to have it in Default Document Language to attribute text with a language. It's not tricky at all to just look it up in the character attribution dialog like any other language one wants to use that is not the current document's default language. > I’ve been developing the spell checker since the very begin of the year. I > have searched the web, many times, in Spanish, English and French, in order > to find out how to develop, without localization, the checker for a new > language, with no result. Two AIs were a waste of time too. > > The only solution was to use another language locales. Only because you expect it to appear in Default Document Language list. > It seems to me that only the format “ext-ES” is considered in the locales > and, because of that my language appears as “ext (España) {ext-ES}”. Because the list entry is generated by the ICU library and apparently that currently has no UI string for 'ext', otherwise would show something like "Extremaduran (España) {ext-ES}". > Anyway, this business of localization is not more than an unnecessary > nightmare when I only want my spellchecker to work. I’ll use another > language localization and find the way to warn users. Bad practice. By using some other language/locale's language tag you'll make it impossible to use that language in the same installation, and furthermore the text attribution language will be stored in the document as that other language and someone/something loading the document will have no clue that it's actually not that language but Extremaduran was meant. Please don't. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
