[Debian-hebrew-common] Re: [Debian-hebrew-package] Bug#418430: mixed hebrew/english spell checking is needed

[Itai Seggev]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:31:04AM +0300, kobi zamir wrote:
> >Why can't this be done by simply calling the right program in kmail?
> 
> kmail use old kde3 speller that is hard coded to use "hspell" const
> string as name for a Hebrew speller. When they will move to kde4, this

Well, can't we ask the nice Debian/Qt maintainers to apply a patch to
call multispell instead?

Actually, taking a look in kdelibs/kspell2/plugins/hspell, it seems
that kspell accesses the dictionary using libhspell and doesn't
directly call hspell in any event. So how does this alternatives trick
work anyway? (Or does libhspell simply call the hspell binary to do
the actually dirty work?) Can we pass an option to libhspell to
emulate -i (or update the API :)? 

> problem will not exist anymore, and multi lingual spelling will not be
> possible :-( at all. multispell is the only utility I know of that do

Why is that? I've not really kept up with KDE4, assuming it's every
actually released. :)

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