Summary: | Support for multiple language emails | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kmail | Reporter: | Andrea Bergia <andreabergia> |
Component: | composer | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bjoern, david, kde-bugs, luigi.mantellini, tuju |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Attachments: | kmail composer and spell check settings |
Description
Andrea Bergia
2004-02-04 15:55:38 UTC
The dictionary which is used for on-the-fly spell checking can be specified per identity and it can be changed in the Composer (View->Dictionary). I agree, setting the language of the whole message would be handy. Aren't there even tools that can determine the language of a text statistically so it could be guessed when replying? Of course such tools exist, see textcat for example. I've even written my own implementation (capable of guessing encoding as well, but a bit slower than original) and a patch for KMail that does change the introductory phase on per language basis. The only problem was that the code wasn't clean enough to be included in KMail. If there is enough interest I can try to make it into KMail for KDE4. Should preferred lang be set in kaddressbook for particular person as preferred lang? Of course that could become complicated with multiple recipients with different languages. Is there any rfc of setting messages headers? I've always wondered that there should be something about content language in Content-Type: header. If such automated detection would be implemented, proper headers would help , for example, to bind correct festival pronouncing libraries in receiving end. Anyway, most of my native lang emails look all red in composer window as selecting that speller lang is too slow and thus I don't bother to do it. Created attachment 14557 [details]
kmail composer and spell check settings
You are lucky if you _can_ select proper spell checking language. See attached
screenshot - I *do* have English dictionary selected still all my *English*
mail is marked with red color :(
> Should preferred lang be set in kaddressbook for particular person as
> preferred lang?
I'd vote for doing it per idendity. Reasons:
- easy to maintain (from user's point of view), but still flexible enough to
fulfill the needs (just create a "english mailinglists" idendity and assign
it to your mailinglist folders)
- you can already setup the spellchecker language per idendity, so this would
be a logical addition
Kmail composer should be able to use different dictionary at same time (how Evolution already does). ciao luigi Closed concerning the spell checking. Concerning multiple language support see bug #81754 |