Re: Bug#142687: Emacs21 doesn't by default know igerman ispell dictionaries

Re: Bug#142687: Emacs21 doesn't by default know igerman ispell dictionaries

[Rob Browning]

Minor fix for Emacs 21.2 reported to Debian.

Thanks

David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de> writes:

> Package: emacs21
> Version: 21.1-7
> Tags: Woody
> Severity: normal
>
> According to /usr/share/doc/ingerman/README.Debian, new german
> orthography dictionaries "german*" were renaimed to
> "ngerman*"/"ndeutsch*", which keeps Emacs21 from finding them.
>
> I suggest you hack emacs or add code to the system-wide emacs startup
> scripts to fix that.  Not everybody might want to read emacs sources or
> ingerman documentation to get it work...  
>
> Excerpt of /usr/share/doc/ingerman/README.Debian:
>
> [...] you have to extend the ispell-dictionary-alist by the following
> entries:
>
>    ("ndeutsch"                          ; ngerman.aff
>     "[a-zA-Z\"]" "[^a-zA-Z\"]" "[']" t ("-C") "~tex" iso-8859-1)
>    ("ndeutsch8"
>     "[a-zA-Z\304\326\334\344\366\337\374]"
>     "[^a-zA-Z\304\326\334\344\366\337\374]"
>     "[']" t ("-C" "-d" "ngerman") "~latin1" iso-8859-1)
>
> BTW that README.Debian says, that Emacs doesn't have by default support
> for new german orthography dictionaries. As of Emacs 21.? that's not
> true any more.
>
> David Kühling

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Re: Bug#142687: Emacs21 doesn't by default know igerman ispell dictionaries

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:44:26 -0500
> 
> Minor fix for Emacs 21.2 reported to Debian.

Thanks.

However, I don't think this is a bug.  What ispell.el does now was
carefully considered, given the 2 possible naming systems used by
new-orthography dictionaries.

Re: Bug#142687: Emacs21 doesn't by default know igerman ispell dictionaries

[Rob Browning]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> However, I don't think this is a bug.  What ispell.el does now was
> carefully considered, given the 2 possible naming systems used by
> new-orthography dictionaries.

OK, so I *shouldn't* apply this patch to the Debian Emacs package?
I'm not deeply familiar with this particular issue, and I wanted to
make sure I'm handling this the way you'd prefer upstream.

Thanks

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Re: Bug#142687: Emacs21 doesn't by default know igerman ispell dictionaries

[Rob Browning]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> It depends on the names under which you distribute the new-orthography 
> German dictionaries.  The problem seems to be that there is no single 
> file name for those dictionaries, so the Emacs distribution have chosen 
> the safe alternative, but that alternative sometimes fails.  It's 
> possible that you can come up with a better alternative tailored for 
> Debian distributions.
>
> In other words, the answer is lurking inside the Debian distribution of 
> Ispell.

OK, that makes sense.  Didn't know if this was a patch that you
wouldn't want applied regardless, or if it should be considered a
local integration issue -- thanks for clarifying.

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Re: Bug#142687: Emacs21 doesn't by default know igerman ispell dictionaries

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Rob Browning wrote:

> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> 
> > However, I don't think this is a bug.  What ispell.el does now was
> > carefully considered, given the 2 possible naming systems used by
> > new-orthography dictionaries.
> 
> OK, so I *shouldn't* apply this patch to the Debian Emacs package?

It depends on the names under which you distribute the new-orthography 
German dictionaries.  The problem seems to be that there is no single 
file name for those dictionaries, so the Emacs distribution have chosen 
the safe alternative, but that alternative sometimes fails.  It's 
possible that you can come up with a better alternative tailored for 
Debian distributions.

In other words, the answer is lurking inside the Debian distribution of 
Ispell.