Bug#560106: Spellchecker: Language entries are unsorted, some duplicated and there are too many entries.

[Agustin Martin]

2009/12/9 Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:48:53PM +0100, Andrés Hamann wrote:
>> Package: iceweasel
>> Version: 3.5.5-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>>
>> The languages list for the spelling is extremely long and has no order.
>> I find myself using different languages and changing the writing
>> language often, therefore I have the following dictionaries installed:
>> myspell-ca, myspell-de-de, myspell-en-gb, myspell-en-us, myspell-es,
>> myspell-fr.
>> After last update, the "Languages" menu in iceweasel lists around 17
>> "Spanish / " dictionaries (main annoyance), this might be a bug in
>> myspell (please confirm if you agree) however iceweasel should also be
>> able to handle this better.
>> Also some of the entries are duplicated, having the list alphabetically
>> ordered and without duplications would be a good start.
>>
>> This bug is related to this bug:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557539
>> Which is marked as fixed in upstream:
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528893
>>
>> But that fix has no relation to the problem of duplication and lack of
>> order.
> (...)
>
> The duplication issue should be solved when dictionnary packages are
> rebuilt against the latest dictionnary-common package.
>
> Agustin, do you know if that is planned?

Duplication should already be fixed for Spanish dict. Regarding the
different  Spanish variants, I have to recheck Openoffice. Initially
all they were needed, otherwise no myspell dict was detected for many
Spanish speaking countries. I have also to recheck hunspell itself,
because last time I looked into it the fallback dict selection for a
given language was not good and was better to have all variants.

-- 
Agustin