Revision as of 09:11, 26 February 2008

Problem with current dictionary.lst file

In order to get rid of the problems involved with the dictionary.lst file at upgrade (see issue 72559) we have to forsake the use of it and provide the necessary information about dictionaries in the configuration.

Already provided configuration entries

Each implementation of spell checker, hyphenator or thesaurus needs to have an entry in the configuration (i.e. the file Linguistic.xcu) stating it's implementation name (for purposes of identification) and the file formats name of the dictionaries it can handle. More than one file format can be listed if supported.

The dictionary file format names for the current OOo linguistic are

• DICT_SPELL
• DICT_HYPH and
• DICT_THES

Thus the respective entries do look like this:

• Spell checker entry

<node oor:name="ServiceManager">
    <node oor:name="SpellCheckers">
        <node oor:name="org.openoffice.lingu.MySpellSpellChecker" oor:op="fuse">
            <prop oor:name="SupportedDictionaryFormats" oor:type="oor:string-list">
                <value>DICT_SPELL</value>
            </prop>
        </node>

        ... entries for other spell checkers ...
    </node>
</node>

• Hyphenator entry

<node oor:name="ServiceManager">
    <node oor:name="Hyphenators">
        <node oor:name="org.openoffice.lingu.LibHnjHyphenator" oor:op="fuse">
            <prop oor:name="SupportedDictionaryFormats" oor:type="oor:string-list">
                <value>DICT_HYPH</value>
            </prop>
        </node>

        ... entries for other hyphenators ...
    </node>
</node>

• Thesaurus entry

<node oor:name="ServiceManager">
        <node oor:name="org.openoffice.lingu.new.Thesaurus" oor:op="fuse">
            <prop oor:name="SupportedDictionaryFormats" oor:type="oor:string-list">
                <value>DICT_THES</value>
            </prop>
        </node>

        ... entries for other thesauri ...
</node>

Required entries