On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:03:39 +0200, Eike Rathke <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Pedro,
On Saturday, 2011-06-25 11:13:53 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
It would seem like the way to go about spell checking is to
go back to Myspell since it has a license we can use (I know,
it's waaay back!).
Hunspell has some advantages over MySpell, see
http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
After all, Hunspell was written because MySpell can't handle
Hungarian
properly. Ripping out Hunspell may also need adaption of the source
code
using it, but I'm not sure about that.
Well, the issue is the license, and the alternative is to just remove
spell checking and maintain it outside the OOo tree, as an extension.
I hate to say this, but where I live Hungarian isn't even an option
(schools beyond english, spanish, french, german and italian are
marginal) so if hnugarian is the only extra feature they should
consider relicensing.
Yes we may need to do more changes but precisely for this type of
changes it's good to have a VCS repository.
Also, the hunspell dictionaries are backwards compatible with
Myspell
so some people may not notice the difference.
Not true, Hunspell uses UTF-8 encoded dictionaries while MySpell uses
awkward single byte encoding. Every sane project uses Hunspell
nowadays.
Ugh... It's backwards compatible only.
The hunspell sourceforge page says it works with myspell dictionaries
too, so at least non-hungarians won"t have to look for new
dictionaries.
Licensewise, the only other alternative would be ispell.
Cheers,
Pedro.
