dictionaries, aspell/myspell/hunspell and so on.

[Caolan McNamara]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:46 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 20:10 +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>
> IIRC abiword uses a library called "enchant" to try to abstract away
> dictionary backends.  There's some documentation about it here:
> http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/
> 

True, it would insulate the app from having to make a decision about
what backend to use. But it would still leave the distro with the
decision about what backends for enchant to use to install, but it 
would enable a selective pick and choose between dictionary backends.

So another solution might be to, e.g.
a) get OOo to using enchant
b) get thunderbird to use enchant
c) not pick a single dictionary library backend, e.g. 
   install aspell & hunspell and maybe even hspell
d) pick and choose those apps which dictionaries for the above to
install depending on the best support for the language, e.g. aspell
by default, default to hunspell for more complex languages and hspell
for hebrew

C.