Jesse Keating wrote: > <still not happy that this isn't within hunspell> I'd like to add that the nature of languages is such that there is no way to have "one spellchecking backend for them all", if the backend makes any assumptions of the languages. What Fedora has actually done, implementing enchant support from existing patches etc. is just what should be done too, as Enchant is an abstraction library that does not make too much assumptions. The only exceptions to Enchant usage are openoffice.org and mozilla products, which is why currently separate Voikko extensions will be provided for them. Regarding Mozilla for example, they just finished switching to hunspell instead of enchant, possibly also believing that it would solve spell-checking problems because hunspell's developers have relatively actively touted its features. Hunspell _is_ a very good thing for eg. Indo-European languages, bringing ispell/aspell/myspell hopefully to an end, but it cannot be expected to be flexible enough for all languages. The updated Voikko architecture page linked in Ville-Pekka's post explains a few problems, possibly the other Enchant users like Zemberek (Turkish) or hspell (Hebrew) would have more insight too. -Timo -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
