On Mon, May 29, 2006, Oded Arbel wrote about "Re: inline spell checking in GNOME browsers [was Hallelujah!Hspell 1.0 is released.]": > > > dictionaries site) but I can't select more then one dictionary - I can > > > use only either the hebrew one which doesn't spell check english, or the > > > english dicitonary which doesn't spell check hebrew. annoying. > > > > This is indeed a Mozilla limitation. > > Is there a bugzilla ticket on this that I can subscribe to, or should I > open one ?
I don't know - you can try searching for it in their bugzilla database. But note that this issue is far from being trivial: While it's obvious to you that what you're spell-checking is Hebrew and English, how do you suppose that Mozilla is supposed to guess that? It's easy to guess that Hebrew is involved (since its characters aren't in use for any other language, if you ignore Yiddish for a moment), but how do you know the second language is English, and not, say, Dutch, German, or whatever? OpenOffice solves this problem by attaching language to a text's style, so that it knows that a certain paragraph is in German. I'm not sure that Mozilla can rely on this. A different solution can be to simply let the user enable more than one spell-checker, and then run both of them (say, passing a word as correct if one of these spell-checkers said it was correct). This makes perfect sense for Hebrew+English, but might perhaps make less sense in other situations, especially when the characters involved are the same (e.g., English+Spanish, and so on) where you might be missing a lot of true spelling mistakes by allowing all words from both languages anywhere in the document. In the meantime, our workaround of a joined Hebrew+English dictionary, works well, so you might want to try it out. -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, May 29 2006, 2 Sivan 5766 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Tea or coffee? Coffee, without cream. It http://nadav.harel.org.il |will be without milk, we have no cream. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
