Bug 324331

Summary:	spell checking does not pick up all installed myspell/hunspell variants
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Erik Quaeghebeur <bugs.kde.org>
Component:	kspell	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	zack
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.10.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Erik Quaeghebeur 2013-08-31 21:50:27 UTC

Many languages have different writing variants (e.g., US English, GB English, GB-oed English,...). Hunspell (myspell) often provides dictionaries for all these variants. For example, I would like to use the fr-reforme1990.(dic|aff) over the fr_FR.(dic|aff). However, it seems KDE only shows a certain type of dictionary, i.e., those that correspond to locales (en_US, en_GB, fr_FR are shown, but not en_GB-oed and fr-reforme1990, fr-classique, fr-moderne).

Work-around until fixed appreciated.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install French or English hunspell/myspell dictionairies
2. look at variants in System Settings, Kate, Kile,... 

Actual Results:  
the non-locale mappable variants are not there

Expected Results:  
all variants should be selectable

Comment 1 Erik Quaeghebeur 2013-09-01 08:20:06 UTC

A follow-up about the locale-relatedness: I renamed fr-reforme1990.(aff|dic) to fr_CZ.(aff|dic) in /usr/share/myspell and indeed, I got French (Czech)! So this bug seems indeed caused by erroneously ignoring dictionaries that do not map to locales.

This makes a work-around straightforward: I created a symbolic link from fr-reforme1990.(aff|dic) to fr.(aff|dic), which works.

Comment 2 Erik Quaeghebeur 2017-08-21 06:34:15 UTC

In KDE 5, for sure when the affix is no longer than 8 characters, things apparently work as they should. Closing.