[Bug 212984] Review Request: hunspell-ar - Arabic word list/dictionaries for OpenOffice

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Summary: Review Request: hunspell-ar  - Arabic word list/dictionaries for OpenOffice


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212984


caolanm at redhat.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Review Request:             |Review Request: hunspell-ar
                   |openoffice.org-langpack-ar- |- Arabic word
                   |dict - Arabic word          |list/dictionaries for
                   |list/dictionaries for       |OpenOffice
                   |OpenOffice                  |




------- Additional Comments From caolanm at redhat.com  2007-06-06 10:52 EST -------
Well, we need to link the dictionary to all the Arabic locales otherwise OOo
won't be able to know what dictionaries to use for a given Arabic locale when it
goes looking for a suitable dictionary. 

We do the same stuff for e.g English on the basis that English spoken in Ireland
and most other former British Empire colonies is the same as in the UK so
there's a single en_GB.dic and a link from en_IE.dic to it. We could very easily
just leave this one as arabic.dic/ar.dic and link the various arabic locales to
it, including ar_EG. I just decided to pick one of the locales at random to copy
the .dic to so as to avoid a "ugly" non-locale .dic name.

Perhaps selecting ar_LB.dic or ar_SD.dic as the output file, and linking the
others to it on the basis that the "Current popular corpora consist mainly of ..
the archives of the daily paper Al-Hayat" which wikipedia tells me originally
started in the Lebanon and is now Saudi-owned might make *slightly* more sense.

Do you want to update the hunspell-ar.spec with the required encoding
modification, and select whatever you prefer as the canonical name for the
dictionary, either an existing locale or just e.g. ar.dic

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