English dictionary extensions

[Andre Fischer <af...@a-w-f.de>]

Hi all,

During my search for a british spell checking extension I have made
some observations I would like to share with you:

At the moment we are shipping the english dictionary extensions
     dict-en.oxt
     en_CA_2_0_0.oxt
     dict-en-au-2008-12-15.oxt
     dict-en-nz-2008-12-03.oxt
     en_US.oxt

For some unknown reason (probably a fault of mine)
     dict-en_ZA-2009.10.22
is not shipped anymore.



When I looked into the extensions I found that dict-en.oxt already
contains data for most english locales:

- dictionaries for (.aff and .dic files) for
    AU
    CA
    GB
    US
    ZA

- hyphenation for GB and US (according to their file names).  The US 
version is ignored, the GB
   version is installed for AU, CA, GB, US, ZA

- thesaurus for US (according to its file name) which is installed for
   AU, CA, GB, US, ZA

It does not install any files for NZ.



The other extensions provide (besides duplicates/other versions of
files listed above) these missing combinations:

en_CA_2_0_0.oxt provides hyphenation and thesaurus for CA

dict-en-au-2008-12-15.oxt provides hyphenation and thesaurus for AU

dict-en-nz-2008-12-03.oxt provides dictionary for NZ (it uses GB
     hyphenation and US thesaurus.)

dict-en_ZA-2009.10.22.oxt provides dictionary for ZA (but no
     hyphenation nor thesaurus.)



I am not quite sure how this data can help beside that the fact that
there already is a GB spellchecker and that we can probably drop the
en_US.oxt extensions, it does not anything new (as long as its
dictionary files are not newer/better than the ones in dict-en.oxt.)


Best regards,
Andre

RE: English dictionary extensions

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>]

There seems to be a license incompatibility that is also not covered under your GPL-waiver request.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pescetti@apache.org] 
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 10:34
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: English dictionary extensions

Andre Fischer wrote:
> For some unknown reason (probably a fault of mine)
>      dict-en_ZA-2009.10.22
> is not shipped anymore.

If I recall correctly it was intentionally dropped since it specified a 
non-existing update URL, and it would have given errors.

Regards,
   Andrea.

Re: English dictionary extensions

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

Andre Fischer wrote:
> For some unknown reason (probably a fault of mine)
>      dict-en_ZA-2009.10.22
> is not shipped anymore.

If I recall correctly it was intentionally dropped since it specified a 
non-existing update URL, and it would have given errors.

Regards,
   Andrea.