Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Dictionary installation for non-mainstream languages on Mac

Hi Alexander, *,

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Alexander Thurgood
<alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 19/02/11 18:21, Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
> > There is no such thing as a chinese spell checker - the characters are
> > words already, so you'd need some kind of grammar-checking instead
> > (that can detect what characters/glyph belong to one "expression").
>
> Thanks for clearing this up, but Chinese dictionaries do exist
> nonetheless, that work by typing in radicals of the characters that you
> want to produce,

That is not a spellcheck dictionary, but an input method editor, thats
two completely different things.
And neither OOo nor LO did ever ship their own. But they work with the
system's IMEs. I use scim with anthy on linux/gnome and it works fine,
and also have no problems using kotoeri on Mac (that is for japanese,
but the same does work with the corresponding chinese IMEs)

> so I am assuming that none exist that can be
> distributed directly with LibO at the time being.

No. Those aren't dictionaries for spellchecking at all, have nothing
to do with spellchecking. Use the system's IME instead. You don't need
to use a chinese UI to be able to use a Chinese IME.

ciao
Christian

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