Bug#822617: Missing symlinks to match locales
On 2016-05-10 09:38, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:05:49AM +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> While there is only one Greek LO locale, there are two Italian LO
>> locales. Is that the simple explanation? If it is, would it be
>> possible to patch LO somehow to behave differently?
>
> Maybe, but I wouldn't even dare to try it. AFAIK those data is also
> used by documents to know what the currency etc is and parsed.
> Inventing something there is probably bad, and even then I wouldn't
> do a intrusive patch like this.
Yeah, it would probably not be uncomplicated.
Nevertheless, if we could find a nice solution for LO which does not
require the symlinks, it would allow for a better user experience for
e.g. Spanish and Arabic users.
Another brainstorm like thought:
Assume that we'd introduce three new directories, e.g.
/usr/share/libreoffice/hunspell
/usr/share/libreoffice/hyphen
/usr/share/libreoffice/mythes
and put the symlinks there instead. Would it be doable to have LO look
both in /usr/share/hunspell and /usr/share/libreoffice/hunspell for
spellcheck dictionaries?
Just keep thinking. :)
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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