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12-20-2014, 11:48 PM
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Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
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Is there a French dictionary for ispell?
My French is terrible. I'd love to spell-check the messages I write to my French correspondents. 'Pardon my French' is getting tired.
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12-21-2014, 02:53 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, UK
Distribution: Debian Testing Amd64
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12-21-2014, 02:52 PM
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Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
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Thanks. I found that. It's 21 years old. It lacks affix files, necessary to build the hash files that ispell uses. Perhaps it's for an obsolete version of ispell.
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12-21-2014, 02:57 PM
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: ...uncanny valley... infinity\1975; (randomly born:) Milwaukee, WI, US( + travel,) Earth&Mars (I wish,) END BORDER$!◣◢┌∩┐ Fe26-E,e...
Distribution: any GPL that work on freest-HW; has been KDE, CLI, Novena-SBC but open.. http://goo.gl/NqgqJx &c ;-)
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Last edited by jamison20000e; 12-21-2014 at 03:00 PM.
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12-21-2014, 03:00 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: ...uncanny valley... infinity\1975; (randomly born:) Milwaukee, WI, US( + travel,) Earth&Mars (I wish,) END BORDER$!◣◢┌∩┐ Fe26-E,e...
Distribution: any GPL that work on freest-HW; has been KDE, CLI, Novena-SBC but open.. http://goo.gl/NqgqJx &c ;-)
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Edit: Debian by the way... 
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12-22-2014, 12:58 AM
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Registered: Mar 2010
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Originally Posted by jamison20000e
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It seems to say that it is. I downloaded it, then found alien to convert a Debian package to Slack, then tried to build a hash file with buildhash, which rejected the affix file. Where are the French-persons in this forum? Should I start using a different spell-checker? enchant and hunspell find no errors for any input file; I must be using them wrong.
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12-22-2014, 01:07 AM
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Originally Posted by RandomTroll
Thanks. I found that. It's 21 years old. It lacks affix files, necessary to build the hash files that ispell uses. Perhaps it's for an obsolete version of ispell.
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I am not a mind-reader. If you don't tell us what you want do you expect us to guess what you're looking for? 21 years? The "rectifications orthographiques" took place 24 years ago and I'm not aware of any major changes since then. I don't think French spelling has changed since then. As for affixes, I offer this. You might also try Hunspell.
jdk
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12-22-2014, 01:37 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: ...uncanny valley... infinity\1975; (randomly born:) Milwaukee, WI, US( + travel,) Earth&Mars (I wish,) END BORDER$!◣◢┌∩┐ Fe26-E,e...
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http://linuxfr.org/forums ?
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?origin=France
Not to say many don't speek French here but
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All member-created content should be in English. This allows our moderators to ensure all content complies with all LQ rules. In addition, we recommend you avoid sms/l33t speak in the technical fora. Avoiding sms/l33t speak will improve question clarity and increase the chance of receiving a helpful response.
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best wishes and have fun. 
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12-22-2014, 07:56 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 2,256
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I finally found a French source for Slackware, http://ftp.lip6.fr, recommended by http://www.slackware-fr.org. Its ispell has no French dictionary.
I wasn't complaining, Mr jdkaye: I was letting everyone know I'm not a lazy rube who hadn't looked for himself. My comment about the dictionaries being old related to why their format didn't work for a more-recent ispell, not that French spelling and vocabulary have changed much. ispell is 12 years old.
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01-05-2015, 01:49 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Fleury-les-Aubrais, 120 km south of Paris
Distribution: Devuan, Debian, Mandrake, Freeduc (the one I used to work on), Slackware, MacOS X
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Perhaps that if you had respected the good way to ask questions, you would have got better answers... It seems like french isn't your unique problem...
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01-05-2015, 11:27 PM
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Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
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Originally Posted by Stéphane Ascoët
Perhaps that if you had respected the good way to ask questions, you would have got better answers... It seems like french isn't your unique problem...
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What was wrong with the way I asked? I never claimed to have only 1 problem.
You're French: how do you spell-check?
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01-06-2015, 01:55 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Fleury-les-Aubrais, 120 km south of Paris
Distribution: Devuan, Debian, Mandrake, Freeduc (the one I used to work on), Slackware, MacOS X
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RandomTroll
What was wrong with the way I asked?
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-ques...html#beprecise
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You're French: how do you spell-check?
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Most of the time, it's only my brain who does it.
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01-06-2015, 09:09 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 2,256
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Originally Posted by Stéphane Ascoët
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My question wasn't precise?
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Originally Posted by Stéphane Ascoët
Most of the time, it's only my brain who does it.
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Where can I download a copy of your brain?
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01-06-2015, 09:23 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann
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I had seen this page before. The first link is to the same mlang page to which Mr jdkaye referred me. The second was to a Windows program. I downloaded the Windows program, found a Windows computer, installed it, took the francais files. ispell objected to the hash files (wrong magic2 numbers). I built a new hash file with the affix file and hunspell's dictionary (the Windows program had no dictionaries) after changing the 'oe ligature' characters to oe. That yielded something that worked. I hoped that it would repair accents but this one doesn't offer correctly-accented substitutes for many words in which that is the only mistake; it identifies them as mis-spelled but doesn't list the correctly-accented alternative most of the time.
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