Re: Win32 Dictionary Installation

Well, thanks for the overwhelming response, but there is certainly a
very specific and easily reproducible bug here which appeared
initially to be a duplicate of many other bugs. For this reason I was
reluctant to report it, especially after finding a workaround.

If one chooses not to install any dictionaries as an option with the
main program installer, then ispell_dictionary_list.xml doesn't get
installed. The dictionary installer only contains a .hash file and
hence using a standalone dictionary installer at a later date won't
actually install a functioning dictionary. The main download page on
the website has a 'Get Dictionaries' link which implies that
functioning dictionaries can be installed at a later date when they
can't under this scenario. There's nothing to obviously indicate that
this behaviour is to be expected and I'd guess that this affects
dictionaries of all languages, not just British.

There must be quite a few users who would want to be able to install
dictionaries from a local file after installing the main program for
all sorts of different reasons. An easy solution would be to install
ispell_dictionary_list.xml no matter what options one selects in the
main installer. The xml file is tiny (less than 8k) and it could
alternatively be included in the dictionary installer instead of the
main installer in the future.

Reported as bug# 11679

M

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C Q <chimak_quarg@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
(26/06/2008 02:58)

>
> I'm using the current version of Abiword for Windows and I got the
> 'failed to load dictionary' error several times when trying to install
> the British dictionary. I couldn't resolve this issue by reinstalling
> and this has been the case since version 2.6.1 when I started using
> the program.
>
> After a bit of googling I found the problem was that there is no
> ispell_dictionary_list.xml file installed by the dictionary installer.
> I managed to get hold of the required .xml file from the internet and
> put this in AbiSuite2\dictionary and this makes everything work
> correctly. The dictionary installer installs the .hash file, but
> doesn't even contain the .xml file - I know this because I extracted
> the contents of AbiWord_Dictionary_British.exe
>
> I'm not sure if this issue affects all Windows users, but I've seen
> many bug reports about dictionaries not installing properly under
> Windows. I've made my own installer for the British dictionary, maybe
> whoever assembles the Win32 dictionary installers can sort this
> out for others.
>
> M
Received on Wed Jul 2 04:57:03 2008