Re: Win32 Dictionary Installation

My apologies for the sarcasm Ryan, I didn't mean it maliciously, it's
a bit of a British trait. Anyway, glad I could help.

Mohammed

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Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
(02/07/2008 06:52)

>
> Ah, I now understand! (The sarcasm, however, did not help.) I had
> noticed the bugs and emails in the past being filed but didn't respond
> because I had never actually been able to reproduce it myself. I see
> now that it is because I never unchecked installing a dictionary. Your
> recently-filed bug report is clear and I can fix this problem - the
> issue was I never had a decent characterization of what the problem
> actually was.
>
> Unless another dev has a suggestion not to, I'm simply going to always
> install that xml file rather than regenerating all the dictionary
> installers.
>
> Ryan
>
>
> Mohammed Ahmed wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > 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
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Received on Wed Jul 2 09:00:40 2008