[SOLVED] Is there a French dictionary for ispell?

RandomTroll · 01-07-2015, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

I'd switch to hunspell.

ispell works better than hunspell: hunspell doesn't recognize contractions, such as j'ai.

jdkaye · 01-07-2015, 01:29 PM

I cannot replicate your situation. Note there is no error indicated for "J'ai" and "C'est" but the misspelled "soux" is underlined in red as you would expect.
jdk

RandomTroll · 01-07-2015, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by jdkaye

I cannot replicate your situation. Note there is no error indicated for "J'ai" and "C'est" but the misspelled "soux" is underlined in red as you would expect.
jdk

I had a different experience than you. hunspell rejected every word that included a contraction, treating the 2 parts as separate words. Have you used hunspell in French and added these to your personal dictionary? This was the first time I used it; I downloaded Slackware's current package. If you use a different distribution you may have a better dictionary.

Which editor did you use? I applied both to a discrete file (not invoked them inside an editor) in iso-8859-1 (not graphics), which uses the same character for apostrophe and single quote. If you're using an editor sophisticated enough to have separate characters for those maybe that's the problem, though hunspell's dictionary is in iso-8859-15, which doesn't; that would seem to rule out that hypothesis.

Can you display oe ligature correctly?

jdkaye · 01-08-2015, 12:59 AM

All the character encoding I use (knowingly at least) are utf-8. The screenshot was taken of Libreoffice which is the word processor I use. The editor I use is kate which also has a spell checker. Here are some details:

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Spell Checker
The configuration options available here are used as default by all KDE applications that use Sonnet, which is a frontend to various free spell checkers.
To use Sonnet you need to install spell checkers like e.g. GNU Aspell, Enchant, Hspell, ISpell or Hunspell and additionally the corresponding dictionaries for your language.
The configuration options selected here can be overridden by each application.
In the drop down box Default language choose from the available dictionaries, which one to use for Sonnet.

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Can you display oe ligature correctly?

You mean this one? œ
jdk

RandomTroll · 01-09-2015, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by jdkaye

All the character encoding I use (knowingly at least) are utf-8.

I use iso-8859, currently -1 but I may switch to -15 to get the euro and oe ligature. I write in non-graphical environments with emacs. hunspell's dictionary is in iso-8859-15, not utf, at least the one in Slackware's package.

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Originally Posted by jdkaye

The screenshot was taken of Libreoffice

A graphical environment. Do you use a different key for apostrophe and single quote?

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Originally Posted by jdkaye

You mean this one? œ

Yes. Thanks.

jdkaye · 01-09-2015, 11:53 PM

1. I assume you have downloaded the Libreoffice tarball libreoffice-dictionaries-4.3.5.2.tar.gz This contains the source code for compiling dictionaries (including affixes) from many different languages.
2.

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A graphical environment. Do you use a different key for apostrophe and single quote?

I could but I don't. ´This´ is the one you're talking about, correct?
3.

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I write in non-graphical environments

Can you explain ´non-graphical environments´. Do you mean in a terminal? Or are you talking about a tty? (ctl-alt-F1,...)
4. Here is the output to the locale command:

Code:

~$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

What does yours look like?
jdk

RandomTroll · 01-11-2015, 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by jdkaye

1. I assume you have downloaded the Libreoffice tarball libreoffice-dictionaries-4.3.5.2.tar.gz

No. I use OpenOffice. I tried using its dictionaries and affix files with ispell, to no avail.

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Originally Posted by jdkaye

I could but I don't. ´This´ is the one you're talking about, correct?

It looks like it is. I know that larger character sets have separate characters for apostrophe and single quote, that if a program wants to distinguish between the two it can accept j'ai but reject j´ai.

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Originally Posted by jdkaye

3.Can you explain ´non-graphical environments´. Do you mean in a terminal? Or are you talking about a tty? (ctl-alt-F1,...)

Environments in which the OS and programs emit only characters into cells, in which the screen is defined as cells. For linux that pretty much means non-X. X has terminals. I get to them with ctl-alt-f[1-10], but I get to X with ctl-alt-f11.

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Originally Posted by jdkaye

4. Here is the output to the locale command:...
What does yours look like?
jdk

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LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=

In a separate thread M. Didier Spaier told me he uses aspell for French spell-checking. I found its foreign language dictionaries in Slackware's extras. It worked perfectly, so I'm not interested in this problem anymore. I appreciate your help. Thanks.