Re: [Evolution] Spell check Problem

[Rob Walker <rob myinternetplace net>]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 17:37, René Seindal wrote:

> There appears to be quite a few problems with the spell checking in
> evolution, at least if you live in a multi-language environment.  I
> write emails every day in danish, english and italian, and having to go
> to the control center to switch language for almost every message is a
> pain.  It really should be selectable for the individual message being
> composed.  It should be possible to write three different emails at the
> same time in three different languages without having to spend more time
> in the control center than in evo.

I am thinking that a straightforward solution to this would be to have
evo spawn off different copies of "spellchecker --lang=<foo>" for each
different language which is being used for composition.

Also, it would be an amazing feature to have a preferences setting for
the addressbook or listmanager or somewhere, which would say "use
lang=<foo>" for this recipient.  So as soon as you start
replying/composing to someone, the correct dictionary would be chosen.

A super-amazing feature would be to have a list of "approved
dictionaries" for evo to have on hand.  For me, that list would be one,
for you it would be three.  :-)  And when you were composing an email to
someone who didn't have a preferred dictionary setting set, evo would
spell check in the first dictionary, and if there was a mistake, try the
same word in the next dictionary, hoping to find a match in the lang=DE
setting, rather than the default lang=EN setting.  If it was able to do
this consistently, it would say to you, "I was using lang=EN for this
recipient, should I use lang=DE?"  and you would say yes or no, as
appropriate.

Another thought I just had, since you are one of these people who can
use more than one language (unlike myself, which is why I am asking), do
you think it would be wise to spell check in all of your languages at
once, only marking a word as mis-spelled if it was not in any of the
dictionaries (lang=en, lang=fr, lang=de, personal)?  I suppose that this
would only be useful for the times when you are composing to someone who
doesn't have a lang=<foo> setting in their addressbook information.

rob