Bug#1109355: libreoffice: Support all Hunspell dictionary files, regardless of name
severity 1209355 wishlist
tag l1209355 + upstream
tag 1209355 + wontfix
thanks
Hi,
Am 15. Juli 2025 21:18:28 MESZ schrieb Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org>:
>Currently, LibreOffice only supports Hunspell dictionaries with file names in the
>xx_YY.dic format, where xx is the language code and YY is the country or region
>code. This is an artificial limitation imposed by the LibreOffice spell checking
>GUI.
Yes.
>The GUI should be updated to be able to select any valid Hunspell dictionary,
>including those that only list a language code, like nl.dic, and those that have
>other file naming syntax, like de_med.dic:
Ideally, yes. See my other reply, though.
>https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/all/hunspell-de-med/filelist
>
>and sr_Latn_RS.dic:
>
>https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/all/hunspell-sr/filelist
But those have both even nonstandard names not detectable. Except you do de_ or sr_Latn. Can of Worms.
And the Serbian one has the symlinks, too.
>Further information about this problem can be found at:
>
>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1109253
See my reply in <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1109253#96>
Regards
Rene
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