Bug#502654: hunspell-fr: French dictionary is not working for locales outside of France
On 2008-10-19 at 03:22:32, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > They apparently use the myspell dictionaires in /usr/share/myspell/dicts/
> > and since hunspell-fr (rightfully) conflicts on myspell-fr, then the
> > necessary dictionaires are missing in these other apps. Installing this
> > patched hunspell-fr package fixes the problems.
>
> myspell-fr and hunspell-fr come from different authors/source packages
> etc.
Sure, but hunspell-fr conflicts on myspell-fr and myspell-fr-gut so it has
to provide the same dictionaries otherwise non-France users will be missing
a dictionary.
> > There are some differences, but until we have specific dictionaries for all
> > of them, then using the ones from France is a very good
> > alternative. Certainly better than not having a dictionary at all :)
>
> I honestly disagree. Depending on the differences it's better to have no
> dictionary than a dictionary accepting a "wrong" spelling as true and
> misleading users.
I should have been explained myself better here. The languages are so
similar (same spelling and all) that the paper-based dictionaries from
France are also used in other countries as well. The differences lie mostly
in how each word is used in different countries.
Also, if you look at myspell-fr and myspell-fr-gut, they both use the same
dictionary for all 5 locales [0]. So I think that it's fine for hunspell-fr
to do the same.
Francois
[0] http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/ifrench.git;a=blob;f=debian/myspell-fr.info-myspell;hb=master
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