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Re: How to add spell checking dictionaries to Icecat
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: How to add spell checking dictionaries to Icecat |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Sep 2017 22:17:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Maxim,
Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis:
> I asked this question on the freenode #icecat channel yesterday, but
> didn't get a response, so I'm forwarding it here.
>
> Is there a way to install dictionaries for IceCat? When I right-click in
> a text box and choose 'Add Dictionaries', it brings me here:
> http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/. If I then go to the installation page
> and try to install the French (France) dictionary, I get: The add-on
> downloaded from this site could not be installed because it appears to
> be corrupt.
>
> IIUC, the spell checker used by Icecat is Hunspell. We don't seem to
> have any hunspell dictionary packaged in Guix. Has anyone got a hold of
> this?
That’s a very good question. I’ve noticed before that that
spell-checking in IceCat didn’t work and that’s a serious problem from a
UX viewpoint.
Looking at Hunspell’s home page, it looks like we should build
dictionary packages from what’s at
<https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/>, no?
Ludo’.
- Re: How to add spell checking dictionaries to Icecat,
Ludovic Courtès <=