Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:49:20PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> Given the limitations of ispell, I would instead urge us all to
> migrate all our packages to use for example hunspell and drop ispell
> completely from the distribution. It would be a lot easier to
> maintain a dictionary in Debian if only one format of it needed to be
> generated, and it would be a lot easier to configure a desktop to use
> a given dictionary if only one package needed to be configured to use
> it.
Generating all the different dictionaries isn't that hard. The problem
is getting any of them to fully support your language.
> And it would be a lot easier to check spelling in any language if all
> programs supported a spell checker that supported any language, and
> not only the "simple" ones with a structure similar to English. :)
You mean that there is any spell checker that fully supports a
"non-simple" language? I even have to wonder whether English is
properly supported.
Kurt
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