Re: Canadian Spell Check & English (Canadian) language

[Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 August 2013 02:03, Bill Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 23:45 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 18 August 2013 16:58, Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 18.08.2013, Peter Gueckel wrote:
> >
> >> In KDE settings, you can set the spellcheck language to Canadian and
> >> the keyboard to English(US). Libreoffice and Firefox have a Canadian
> >> English option. I don't think these are dedicated dictionaries for
> >> Canadian spelling
> >
> > As far as I know, Libreoffice uses aspell for
> > spell-checking. Currently, there's no canadian aspell lib.
> >
>
> By the way, for general spellcheck (e.g. thunderbird, kwrite) I think
> hunspell-en is what you'd need, it seems hunspell libraries replace
> aspell on recent Fedora (e.g. I had to add hunspell-en-GB, en-US is
> default, the other English libraries are collected in plain en).
> Though Libreoffice writer here seems to offer Canadian and other
> English variants without that installed.
>
> --
> imalone
> http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk

FYI,  I got LibreOffice to spell check Canadian English by installing
every hunspell-eng package I could find in the Fedora repo.  I am not
sure which is responsible.  I then selected English(Canada) in spelling
in LibreOffice options.  It looks like I now have everything working and
spell checking correctly.  I don't think there is a specific Canadian
English dictionary in aspell or hunspell but some programming that
identifies Canadian spellings using both UK and US dictionaries.

 

There is a separate en_CA dictionary:

$ rpm -ql hunspell-en | grep CA
/usr/share/doc/hunspell-en-0.20121024/README_en_CA.txt
/usr/share/myspell/en_CA.aff
/usr/share/myspell/en_CA.dic

--
Ahmad Samir

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