Hi Khaled, On Wednesday, 2017-02-15 15:35:59 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:42:22PM +0000, Caolán McNamara wrote:Hmm, it seems language tags such as ‘nl’ or ‘fr’ without a region component, and which are valid according to bcp47 are not recognized by LO. Is this a bug I should report?Only if you intend to work on solving it, is my opinion. It would be nice to support a bare "language" dictionary and have it in use for all variants unless there are more specific variants to use, but I don't intend to do it myself, or think my way through hacking firefox, enchant and the rest of the things that parse filenames in /usr/share/myspell|hunspell to also support that.Firefox has no problem using ar.{aff,dic} for Arabic, neither does gtkspell (or whatever GTK+ apps use). Only LibreOffice (and OpenOffice before it) has problem using such dictionaries, and it turn packagers duplicates the dictionary files to support LibreOffice e.g. the hunspell-ar package on Debian has tens of ar_XX.{aff,dic} symlinks just because of this. This has long annoyed me, and I might give it a try if there are some code pointers.
Hum.. that might be related to how a language is mapped to a default locale if there exists one with a country designator. It all happens in i18nlangtag/source/languagetag/languagetag.cxx and i18nlangtag/source/isolang/mslangid.cxx (where in the latter the tables of known locales are). However, there's LanguageTag::getFallbackStrings(), which using and comparing against available dictionaries should work, and LanguageTag::makeFallback() that returns a *known* *locale* (plus getFallback() and getMatchingFallback() for different situations) which currently may be used in the dictionary context but instead getFallbackStrings() should be used. Try to grep for those. If stuck ping me ;-) Eike -- LibreOffice Calc developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GPG key "ID" 0x65632D3A - 2265 D7F3 A7B0 95CC 3918 630B 6A6C D5B7 6563 2D3A Better use 64-bit 0x6A6CD5B765632D3A here is why: https://evil32.com/ Care about Free Software, support the FSFE https://fsfe.org/support/?erack
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature