Bug#536643: myspell-en-za: Use of unpatched myspell affix file (en_ZA.aff) breaks English (South Africa) myspell spell-checking
Package: myspell-en-za
Version: 1:3.0.1-8ubuntu1
Severity: important
Tags: l10n
Binary package hint: myspell-en-za
The affix file for the South African English Myspell dictionary contains
problems that breaks myspell spell-checking in en_ZA. The problem is easily
solved by replacing the /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff file with the
en_GB.aff file. For example, in the two attached screen shots (in Ubuntu
bugtracker at launchpad), the language is in both cases set to English (South Africa), but in the second screenshot
the .aff file has been replaced with the British English one.
This is probably mainly a packaging error, since Commonwealth variants of
English (Australian, Zimbabwean, South African etc.) are supposed to share
affix patterns, as can be seen from the following. Header in en_ZA.aff:
# Affix file for British English MySpell dictionary
# Also suitable as basis for Commonwealth and European English.
# Built from scratch for MySpell. Released under LGPL.
#
# David Bartlett, Andrew Brown.
# R 1.18, 11/04/05
Header in en_GB.aff:
# Affix file for British English MySpell dictionary
# Also suitable as basis for Commonwealth and European English.
# Built from scratch for MySpell. Released under LGPL.
#
# David Bartlett, Andrew Brown.
# R 1.18, 11/04/05
#
# 2006-02-07 - NOSUGGEST, COMPOUNDRULE patches (nemeth AT OOo)
So it is a question of including the latest patched file also in the
myspell-en-za package.
Launchpad URL: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/debian/+source/openoffice.org-dictionaries/+bug/398320
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers jaunty-updates
APT policy: (500, 'jaunty-updates'), (500, 'jaunty-security'), (500, 'jaunty-backports'), (500, 'jaunty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages myspell-en-za depends on:
ii dictionaries-common [openof 1.0.0ubuntu1 Common utilities for spelling dict
myspell-en-za recommends no packages.
myspell-en-za suggests no packages.
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