[Gaim-devel] Another patch for mutliple dictionaries in GtkSpell

[Elias E J. <e.j...@tu...>]

Hi Folks,

the attachment is another attempt to provide multiple language support
for the GtkSpell-spellchecking. It is very different from the patch of
Mardy (sent on 2005-12-26 [PATCH] Add per buddy language selection for
GtkSpell) and, as far as I can see, does not have the problems Nathan
correctly pointed out.

The language is a per-buddy setting and saved as a the "lang" setting in
GaimBlistNode. To pick a language you need to add a line
<setting name='lang' type='string'>sv_SE</setting>
in a buddy-entry in your blist.xml. It is not possible to pick language
in the user-interface.

On 2005-12-27 Nathan Wrote:
...

> I believe that the next version of gtkspell is supposed to have some
> sort of language selection support, although I'm sure it won't be able
> to manage per-buddy settings.  


The current (stable) version of gtkspell does have language selection
support through the function gtkspell_set_language(). The problem is
that (like the FAQ says) there is no nice way to get a list of installed
dictionaries. However, IMHO this should not stop gaim from supporting
multiple dictionaries.

This feature very important for people in multilingual environments (I
chat in 3 different languages on a daily basis). I really hope we can
get acceptable support for multiple dictionaries in gaim really soon.

Elias

PS Thanks for working on and improving gaim which is now considered a
very stable product

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