Bug 79751 - Update: English spelling dictionary & hyphenation
Summary: Update: English spelling dictionary & hyphenation
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Linguistic (show other bugs)
Version:
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4.3.0.0.beta2
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) macOS (All)
: medium critical
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Reported: 2014-06-06 23:30 UTC by jorgequinonez
Modified: 2015-04-01 14:52 UTC (History)
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Description jorgequinonez 2014-06-06 23:30:28 UTC
In the Extension Manager, the current version is from 2011. In AOO 4.1, its from 2014.
Comment 1 Julien Nabet 2014-06-07 07:37:18 UTC
Thomas: thought you might be interested in this since you had updated some packages.
I checked Hunspell, we use 2.8.4 and http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/2.8/ indicates 2.8.6
Comment 2 jorgequinonez 2014-06-07 17:13:55 UTC
Maybe whoever this falls under should put themselves on the mailing list of hunspell (or any other important extension/libraries) so they can be alerted when updates come out. Just a thought. The dictionary that AOO 4.1 apparently is different.
Comment 3 Julien Nabet 2014-06-07 17:18:11 UTC
Andras: I thinkg you might also be interested in this one.
Comment 4 jorgequinonez 2014-06-08 03:35:40 UTC
If you're going to update packages also look into Hunspell 1.3.3:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hunspell/1.3.3/

I reopened bug 34031 (update Hunspell):

https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34031

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thomas: thought you might be interested in this since you had updated some
> packages.
> I checked Hunspell, we use 2.8.4 and
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/2.8/ indicates 2.8.6
Comment 5 penttila 2014-07-15 14:21:36 UTC
I repeat my comment for bug #34031 here:

Even in that case when all modifications of Hunspell 1.3.3 are included as patches in the used/current version it would be nicer to update the whole library. This would create a clear situation for everybody without any further explanation! Is it such a big work? 

I think the same applies for Hyphen. The last version is 2.8.7!
Comment 6 Owen Genat (retired) 2014-07-19 11:27:08 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> In the Extension Manager, the current version is from 2011.

At some point it will presumably have to get updated, thus confirmed. Status set to NEW.
Comment 7 Andras Timar 2014-07-19 11:46:04 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> In the Extension Manager, the current version is from 2011. In AOO 4.1, its
> from 2014.

I see only one big difference between AOO 4.1 dictionaries and ours. They have a different en-GB dictionary from 2014. However, I'm not sure, if it is better than ours. It has fewer words in it at least.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no unique, authoritative upstream source of English dictionaries. Please comment here, if you know one.
Comment 8 Owen Genat (retired) 2014-07-20 08:40:36 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> I see only one big difference between AOO 4.1 dictionaries and ours. They
> have a different en-GB dictionary from 2014. However, I'm not sure, if it is
> better than ours. It has fewer words in it at least.

Confirmed. There are a few minor diffs for en-AU and en-ZA dictionaries and the en-GB and en-US hyphenation lists but the main change is to the en-GB dictionary and affix files. There is a word count difference, but there is also a difference in the encoding used in each file. The AOO en-GB dictionary uses letter codes e.g. 

> Aachen/M
> aardvark/MS

... while the LO version uses numeric codes:

> Aachen/1
> aardvark/2	1
 
Is this as an incompatible difference? The AOO en-gb dictionary also seems to have sorted the entries differently e.g.,
 
> 'mongst

... and similar contracted entries appear at the beginning of the file, while in the LO version these are sorted according to the first alphabetic.
 
(In reply to comment #7)
> As far as I'm concerned, there is no unique, authoritative upstream source
> of English dictionaries. Please comment here, if you know one.

I always thought it was David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, but I see that the maintenance of the en-GB dictionary over at Pyxidium has long since lapsed:

http://en-gb.pyxidium.co.uk/dictionary/OOo.php

... and that Debian and Ubuntu (at least) list their own development teams as maintainers of the Hunspell / MySpell en-GB dictionaries packages. That is disheartening.
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