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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17742 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:53:47 +0000

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On 6 December 2016 at 15:56, Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> wrote:

> On 6 December 2016 at 15:55, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> I wonder if it won't be better to delay pushing this until you solve
>> that problem.  The ispell-dictionary-alist is for Ispell speller only;
>> all the modern spellers should glean that information from the
>> installed dictionaries, and not bother users with tedious setups.  Do
>> you see any need to get this into master before you add this
>> functionality for enchant?
>>
>
> ​Sorry if I wasn't clear: I'm working on adding dictionary detection right
> now.​ You're quite right that should be added before the patch is
> considered installable.
>
>
>> Thanks.  Note that this should not only list the installed
>> dictionaries, but also deduce the suitable values of CASECHARS and
>> NOT-CASECHARS for each dictionary.
>>
>
> ​Thanks for the tip.
>

​In fact, it proves to be impossible to deduce suitable values currently,
so I set defaults. Enchant will need changes to support this (unless one
finds the provider for each dictionary and uses ispell.el's existing
back-end-specific code, but this is a nasty solution). This simple solution
gets the correct encoding at least (Enchant is always utf8), and hence
fixes the misalignment errors.

However, I have updated my enchant patches to add dictionary listing, and
hence my ispell.el patches to automatically find the enchant dictionaries.

-- 
http://rrt.sc3d.org

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