Where are textproc/gtkspell dictionaries?

Chris H bsd-lists at bsdforge.com
Thu Jan 8 16:17:47 UTC 2015


On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 07:05:48 -0800 "Chris H" <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote

> On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 12:01:05 +0100 "Vlad \"Blackflow\" K."
> <acheron.blackflow at gmail.com> wrote
> 
> > textproc/hunspell it is, thanks, I didn't know about that one. I tried
> > aspell and that didn't work so I posted.
> Excelent! :)
> > 
> > Why is it hunspell? Is that some default on FreeBSD? I see stuff like
> > LibreOffice and FireFox depend on it. I tried to browse the gtkspell source
> > on but couldn't find any reference to a preferred dictionary set.
> Honestly, I have no idea. Like I said in my original reply --
> just guessing.
> I'll differ to someone that actually has that answer. :)
Ahem... that was *defer*, not differ.
Given that this subject is regarding "spell checking", I felt
compelled to reply with the correction. Being reminded off-list, didn't
hurt either. (I caught the mistake *just* as I had hit the send button).

--Chris
> 
> --Chris
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Chris H <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 02:07:31 +0100 "Vlad \"Blackflow\" K."
> > > <acheron.blackflow at gmail.com> wrote
> > >
> > > > So Pidgin (net-im/pidgin) can apparently use textproc/gtkspell to
> > > provide > spell checking, and the knob is on by default, but the gtkspell
> > > package > does not carry any dictionaries and I assume that's the reason
> > > why there's
> > > > no spell checking support in Pidgin.
> > > >
> > > > What provides these dictionaries?
> > > Just guessing here;
> > > but is it the usual suspects?
> > > textproc/aspell-ispell textproc/hunspell
> > > along wih their dictionaries:
> > > textproc/(en|es|...)-aspell textproc/(en|es|...)-hunspell
> > >
> > > Like I said, just a guess.
> > >
> > > --Chris
> > > >
> > > > Or maybe I'm asking the wrong question and should ask instead how to
> > > get > spell checking in Pidgin.
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