Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 05:23:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: ports/30988: AbiWord's american.hash dictionary appears corrupted/useless Message-ID: <20011002122358.9815D15503@johncoop.MSHOME>
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>Number: 30988
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: AbiWord's american.hash dictionary appears corrupted/useless
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 02 09:50:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John Merryweather Cooper
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD johncoop.MSHOME 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #17: Sun Sep 30 23:56:37 PDT 2001 root@johncoop.MSHOME:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JOHNCOOP i386
>Description:
The american.hash supplied with AbiWord (0.9.4) appears to be either
corrupted or useless. You know a spell checker is having a bad day
when it marks words like "the", "a", and "an" as spelling errors--along
with every other word. Fortunately, the fix is easy! :)
>How-To-Repeat:
Load up or create an American English document. Spell check it. Enjoy
how it marks every word as a spelling error. :)
>Fix:
Steps:
1) build/install the ispell port if you haven't already;
2) compare the american.hash files in the two installs--
${LOCALBASE}/share/AbiSuite/dictionary/american.hash 859352 bytes
${LOCALBASE}/share/ispell/american.hash 5524040 bytes :)
3) rename AbiSuite's american.hash to american.hash.bad
4) copy ispell's american.hash to AbiSuite/dictionary/american.hash
. . . and observe how spell checking now works . . . :)
NOTE: This technique probably works for other languages too
(untested).
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