Well, thanks for the links Harold.
I had put some ideas here: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8029 But I missed that linguistic.xcu file!

However, even if I clean the linguistic.xcu file to remove the locales I don't 
want (English - South Africa), it's rebuild at OOo start-up. But I can't find 
any trace of an en_ZA entry anywhere else.

When I downloaded the Beta 2, I had no dic installed. I installed the 
dict-en.oxt file found in the main folder. It may have written something 
somewhere that is taken into account at each start-up. I've browsed all the 
folders, no clue.

Hagar

Le 01.08.2008 19:40, Harold Fuchs a écrit :

Gentlepeople,

There has been some discussion about spell checking in OOo v3 Beta. I asked in the "lingucomponent" (language development) project. Below is the conversation so far. As and when I get more info I'll pass it on. Basically the story is that dictionary installation in v3 is/will be very different from that in v2. In v3 it will be done via Extensions. It's not clear to me but I think the responsibility for converting an existing dictionary to the new format will belong to the author of the dictionary. The web page Sophie points me at (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/taxonomy/term/88) covers very few languages with the only European ones being German, Luxembourgish, Romanian and Polish. No British, Australian, Canadian or New Zealand English :-(

Hmmmm.

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Hi Harold,

Some answers, may be others can complete

Harold Fuchs wrote:
Using a different e-mail address I help out with support in [email protected]; we've had several questions recently about spell checking in v3 Beta. So ...

Please let me know where can I find documentation on:
- how to install spell checking dictionaries/thesauri for different languages (particularly on Windows if that makes a difference but also on other OS's)?

They are provided as an extension (.oxt file) so to install them go under the extension manager.

- where I can find spell checking dictionaries/thesauri for different languages? Will it be necessary for authors of such dictionaries/thesauri to submit them to a central "repository" of some sort? Where is that repository?

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/taxonomy/term/88

- how to convert an existing (2.x) dictionary/thesaurus to the new format? Is there a program that automates this process? For Windows (or, if not for Windows then for what)?

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Non-code_extensions#Extensions_for_dictionaries
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extension_Dictionaries

Also, what progress is being made converting the many 2.x format dictionaries/thesauri to the new format? Is there a project for this? How do I get in touch with the people participating in that project?

I don't know, may be someone else on this list will have the answer :)

Hope this helps
Kind regards
Sophie


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