Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 1 juil. 08 à 14:59, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2008 12:33:18 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: ti, 2008-07-01 kello 12:10 +0200, Thibaut Paumard kirjoitti: Come on, UTF-8 is good. UTF-8 also 16 years old. [...] Surely it's enough age for a character set encoding to be

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Michael Tautschnig] Debian's Social Contract says that Our priorities are our users and free software. It does _not_ say that Debian should tell users what is good. Right? Would it be appropriate here to propose a corollary to Godwin's Law involving the first sentence of point 4 of the

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Brian May
Michael Tautschnig wrote: Debian's Social Contract says that Our priorities are our users and free software. It does _not_ say that Debian should tell users what is good. Right? Taken to the extreme, this would mean Debian would still require insert obsolete kernel version here because some

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Michael Tautschnig wrote: Debian's Social Contract says that Our priorities are our users and free software. It does _not_ say that Debian should tell users what is good. Right? Taken to the extreme, this would mean Debian would still require insert obsolete kernel version here

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080629 18:15]: Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 21:53:24 schrieb Agustin Martin: Each spellchecker has currently some special features. Fortunately, the only thing where ispell is stronger than the other spellcheckers (support for pseudocharsets like 'a, a,

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-29 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 21:53:24 schrieb Agustin Martin: Each spellchecker has currently some special features. Fortunately, the only thing where ispell is stronger than the other spellcheckers (support for pseudocharsets like 'a, a, \'a, ... ) is already included in aspell development

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-29 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 21:53:24 schrieb Agustin Martin: Each spellchecker has currently some special features. Fortunately, the only thing where ispell is stronger than the other spellcheckers (support for pseudocharsets like 'a, a, \'a, ... ) is already included in aspell development

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-25 Thread Agustin Martin
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:49:20PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Bernd Zeimetz] I'm forwarding this orphaning bug to debian-devel as I hope this rises the chances to find somebody who is willing to take care of ispell. According to http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html the