| Spellchecking of non-English languages [message #793650] |
Wed, 08 February 2012 11:50  |
 Amenel Voglozin
Messages: 23
Registered: September 2009 |
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Hi,
I have used Eclipse + PDT to write the English version of my website. Fast forward a few months later, I am writing the French part of my website. And I seem to have hit a snag in the spellchecker: there is no way to configure Eclipse so that the spellchecking is done in only one language, if that language is not English.
For instance, with "Platform Dictionary" (Preferences > general > Editors > Spelling) set to "anglais (Etats-Unis)" (i.e. English (USA)), I have no problems at all: I can use a user dictionary for words such as "fretboard", "smartphone", "diatonic" or "firewall" that aren't included in the platform dictionary.
When I wanted to switch to French, I set "Platform Dictionary" to "none" and indicated a wordlist file for French as user dictionary. Well, this doesn't do the trick because wrongly spelled words are no longer underlined. It seems like option "none" deactivates spellchecking altogether.
So the only option to have French validated is to have Platform Dictionary to something else than "none", which isn't a solution either since "antivirus" is valid French and "anti-virus" is valid English. "Platform" is valid English and "plateforme" is valid French. The odds of letting errors slip into the text are high given the number of words that share similar spellings in these two languages ("address", "adresse", "cane", "canne", etc.)
Does anyone know:
* how to add a platform dictionary so that I can add French?
* how to redirect the platform dictionary files to empty files so that spellchecking French doesn't end up in spellchecking English+French?
My first move was to go open a bug report but I thought I might as well come over here and ask for confirmation as workarounds first.
Thanks.
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| Re: Spellchecking of non-English languages [message #800658 is a reply to message #793650] |
Fri, 17 February 2012 10:20  |
Dani Megert
Messages: 3802
Registered: July 2009 |
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On 08.02.2012 12:50, Amenel Voglozin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have used Eclipse + PDT to write the English version of my website.
> Fast forward a few months later, I am writing the French part of my
> website. And I seem to have hit a snag in the spellchecker: there is
> no way to configure Eclipse so that the spellchecking is done in only
> one language, if that language is not English.
>
> For instance, with "Platform Dictionary" (Preferences > general >
> Editors > Spelling) set to "anglais (Etats-Unis)" (i.e. English
> (USA)), I have no problems at all: I can use a user dictionary for
> words such as "fretboard", "smartphone", "diatonic" or "firewall" that
> aren't included in the platform dictionary.
>
> When I wanted to switch to French, I set "Platform Dictionary" to
> "none" and indicated a wordlist file for French as user dictionary.
> Well, this doesn't do the trick because wrongly spelled words are no
> longer underlined. It seems like option "none" deactivates
> spellchecking altogether.
>
> So the only option to have French validated is to have Platform
> Dictionary to something else than "none", which isn't a solution
> either since "antivirus" is valid French and "anti-virus" is valid
> English. "Platform" is valid English and "plateforme" is valid French.
> The odds of letting errors slip into the text are high given the
> number of words that share similar spellings in these two languages
> ("address", "adresse", "cane", "canne", etc.)
>
> Does anyone know:
> * how to add a platform dictionary so that I can add French?
> * how to redirect the platform dictionary files to empty files so that
> spellchecking French doesn't end up in spellchecking English+French?
>
> My first move was to go open a bug report but I thought I might as
> well come over here and ask for confirmation as workarounds first.
See https://bugs.eclipse.org/332024
Dani
>
> Thanks.
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