#455 Flexible use of spellcheck (with and w/o locale)

[Gabix]

Currently, OmegaT demands that dictionary file names strictly correspond to the target language, i.e. if my target language is BE-BY, OmegaT would only check spelling if I've got a pair of be_BY.dic and be_BY.aff but would ignore be.dic and be.aff. However, if the target language is BE, the situation is reversed: be_BY files are ignored, and only be files are used.

Suggestion is:
a) if the target language is specified with a country local, OmegaT should first look for a strict compliance (language+country) and, if not found, look for a spellcheck files pair with only language specified;
b) if, on the contrary, only the language is specified, OmegaT should first look for a spellcheck pair with only language specified, and then (possibly, with a prompt) look for a pair with language+country specified.

[Marc Prior]

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Suggestion:

- Default behaviour as now
- User option to override automatic dictionary selection and select a dictionary manually

Would this satisfy you, Dmitri? It would have the added benefit of going some way to supporting those whose language settings are not supported at all (notably, those using three-digit language codes)

[Gabix]

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I would be fully satisfied to have a mechanism similar to one of OOo (current, as it's going to change): to have a spellcheck setting file like dictionary.lst and to point OmegaT to it, not to a directory (thus, you'll be able to use the same set both for OmegaT and for OOo, inter alia). So, I'd simply write
DICT be BY be_BY
DICT be be_BY

or, possibly, something like:

DICT be ANY be_BY
DICT de ANY de_DE
DICT en ANY en_US
DICT en GB en_GB

and that's it (thus, as you see the last 2 lines, I'll be able to use the English(US) dictionary for any English, but English(Great Britain) specifically for that one.

Your suggestion is fine too, but it sounds like users will have to set up each language individually. Or you just mean something like that and I simply could not get it?

[Gabix]

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Or make just a special menu item, something like ‘Check Spelling with this dictionary’ and point to, say, an .aff file (within a directory specified in the settings).

[Briac Pilpré]

The current implementation works like this :

• When opening a project, we get the target language code (fr_CA for example)
• We get the list of all installed dictionaries
• If there is a dictionary matching the full language code, we use it
• Otherwise, we try to find a generic dictionary for the language (fr in this case)
• If that fails, there will be no spellcheck done

Note that this does not handle the case where the project is in a specific locale (xx_YY) and only a dictionary with another specific locale is available (xx_ZZ). Thus, it's probably best to always have a generic language dictionary installed.

[Didier Briel]

Implemented in Subversion (/trunk).

Didier

[Didier Briel]

Implemented in the released version 4.0 of OmegaT.

Didier