Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Pitjantjatjara spell checker

On 28 February 2011 19:20, Andras Timar <timar74@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/2/28 Peter Ruwoldt <ruwoldtp@gmail.com>:
> > I am wanting to develop a Pitjantjatjara spell checker for
> > LibreOffice.  Pitjantjatjara is one of a number of indigenous
> > languages from Central Australia.  I'm hoping that what we learn from
> > doing this will enable us to develop spell check dictionaries for
> > other Australian indigenous languages.
> > I have a list of words in a unicode text file where each word is on a
> > new line.  There are about 2300 lines/words.
> > I have no idea what to do next and I would appreciate clues for the next steps.
>
> Hi,
>
> Have you read the Hunspell manual?
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hunspell/Documentation/
> You need a dictionary in Hunspell format.
> There is more to be done in order to use this dictionary in LibreOffice. See
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Adding_a_new_language_or_locale for
> "how to" for the bare minimum of what's needed to add support to spell-check a
> language, and the full-blown locale data to make it a proper fully-supported
> locale, and bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30773 for
> the example of Kabyle.
>
> Best regards,
> Andras

Thanks for that Andras. Getting the locale bit happening seems to be a
hurdle I will have to make happen.
Peter

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