Rich Burridge wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 02:31:32PM -0700, Rich Burridge wrote: >> >> >>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~richb/pkg-2198-v1/ >>> >> >> Does it make sense to have the Spanish and French dictionaries in the >> core >> package, if the core package is otherwise US English only? >> > > I've asked a couple of the OpenOffice.org engineers to respond to this > question.
Here's their reply. The quoted text is also from an OpenOffice engineer. > I believe we always bundle these dictionaries with en-US to support writing text in those > languages (Spanish for the southern US, French for Canada). yes, there is a list that connects office language with supported spell checker. An English installation set gets the spell checker for en-US, es and fr as extensions. af = "af,en-US" de = "de,en-US,fr,it" en-US = "en-US,es,fr" ... For multilingual installation sets, the languages will be added. So an English-German installation set would get the spell checker for de,en-US,es,fr and it. > However, I don't really know our general policy regarding dictionaries > vs. UI localization. Maybe it makes sense to package dictionaries > separately ? Martin (H.), Ingo, can you please comment ? The UI language is included into the rpms, packages, windows installer, ... and is therefore part of the standard installation set. The spell checkers are independently added via extensions and the list I mentioned above. Only for this extensions shell scripts and the usage of the tool unopkg are required. To answer the question, why Spanish and Frech spell checker are also part of the English installation set. Well, we want to support the languages, that are typically spoken in English speaking countries. And in the US there are many Spanish speaking people and in Canada many French speaking people. So, at least the Spell checker will be available in this languages, if an English Office product is installed. _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
