Re: [Gtk-osx-users] libenchant and applespell

[F Wolff <friedel translate org za>]

Op Ma, 2011-02-21 om 07:02 -0800 skryf John Ralls:
> 
> On Feb 21, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Olivier Sessink wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > libenchant lists applespell as possible backend. I've built libenchant
> > with the jhbuild module, but now I don't see any dictionaries. Does
> > anyone have experience with libenchant on OSX? Is anything special
> > needed to get applespell support running?
> 
> I just went through this with gramps. You also need hunspell (already
> in modulesets-stable), and the dictionaries are at
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries. Hunspell's
> claims notwithstanding, Apple's dictionaries don't work with the gtk
> build.

Last time I looked into this (a year or two ago) there was no support
for applespell in the build infrastructure, although the code was there.
No idea if that is still the case, though. I didn't manage to fix it in
my allowable time.

Friedel

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