On Sat, 2020-07-18 at 18:45 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Just like there is many different dialects of Spanish, and other
> languages the same is true of English, many parts of the language are
> shared, and the most critical part for most people is making sure
> that
> things like Paper settings, date, and number formats are correct for
> their location. It is also critical that the local nuances though
> looking at what is in place on disk all the other languages are
> symlinks to en_GB except for en_CA and en_US
yes, all others languages are symlinks , therefore aren't useful.
I remove them every time that they are installed, with this simple
script [1] .
It very annoying Firefox or Evolution offer 22 languages the check
spell when they are really 3 ...
[1]
(cd /usr/share/myspell; find -type l -exec rm {} \;)
> Dennis
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 7:45 AM Germano Massullo
> <germano.massullo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > All desktop oriented Fedora installers install on the system
> > packages:
> > hunspell
> > hunspell-en
> > hunspell-en-GB
> > hunspell-en-US
> >
> > When a user opens the language list of the spell checker, is has
> > ~24 different English options, like English (Antigua and Barbuda),
> > English (Australia), English (Bahamas), English (Belize), etc. (See
> > screenshot [1])
> > People who are not native English speakers have this list even
> > bigger because they will have their own language entry, plus
> > others.
> >
> > Since the huge list is brought by hunspell-en, can we just ship
> > Fedora with hunspell-en-GB and hunspell-en-US ?
> > Another option could be to move all non GB/USA English variants to
> > other hunspell-en-* packages as I said in ticket [2]
> >
> >
> > [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1701536
> > [2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1858241
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