When using enchant, the spell checker always replaces ß by ss. For Example the German word Straße is written Strasse. This is obviously wrong. Hunspell and aspell (which are also installed on the system) work correctly. echo Straße | hunspell -d de_DE_frami Hunspell 1.3.2 * # echo Straße | enchant -d de_DE_frami -a @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 1.6.0) & Straße 2 0: Strasse, Strafe The misbehavior is system wide and not limited to the user. Therefore is should be not influenced by my user profile. Interestingly my Laptop works correctly, although the use flags and everything else from myspell aspell and enchant seems to be same. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo Straße | enchant -d de_DE_frami -a Actual Results: @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 1.6.0) & Straße 2 0: Strasse, Strafe Expected Results: @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 1.6.0) * # emerge --info Portage 2.2.0_alpha116 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.3.8-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.3.8-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9450_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:35:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.7 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.7-r5 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 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cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON eix -I spell [I] app-dicts/aspell-de Available versions: 0.50.2 0.60_pre20030222 Installed versions: 0.60_pre20030222(21:38:40 16.01.2012) Homepage: http://aspell.net Description: German and Swiss-German language dictionary for aspell [I] app-dicts/aspell-en Available versions: 0.51.0 0.51.1 6.0.0 Installed versions: 6.0.0(01:37:15 19.04.2012) Homepage: http://aspell.net Description: English (US, British, 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app-text/hunspell Available versions: 1.3.2-r3 {linguas_af linguas_bg linguas_ca linguas_cs linguas_cy linguas_da linguas_de linguas_el linguas_en linguas_eo linguas_es linguas_et linguas_fo linguas_fr linguas_ga linguas_gl linguas_he linguas_hr linguas_hu linguas_ia linguas_id linguas_it linguas_ku linguas_lt linguas_lv linguas_mk linguas_ms linguas_nb linguas_nl linguas_nn linguas_pl linguas_pt linguas_ro linguas_ru linguas_sk linguas_sl linguas_sq linguas_sv linguas_sw linguas_tn linguas_uk linguas_zu ncurses nls readline static-libs} Installed versions: 1.3.2-r3(04:07:44 14.06.2012)(linguas_de ncurses nls readline -linguas_af -linguas_bg -linguas_ca -linguas_cs -linguas_cy -linguas_da -linguas_el -linguas_en -linguas_eo -linguas_es -linguas_et -linguas_fo -linguas_fr -linguas_ga -linguas_gl -linguas_he -linguas_hr -linguas_hu -linguas_ia -linguas_id -linguas_it -linguas_ku -linguas_lt -linguas_lv -linguas_mk -linguas_ms -linguas_nb -linguas_nl -linguas_nn -linguas_pl -linguas_pt 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i found out that the de_CH_frami dictionary is used with strace although de_DE_frami was given as argument. it seems that enchant is searching for de_DE_FRAMI (upper case) instead of de_DE_frami. Because it could not find the file, it is opening de_CH_frami (lowercase). open("/root/.enchant/enchant.ordering", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/root/.config/enchant/enchant.ordering", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/root/.config/enchant/myspell/de_DE_FRAMI.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/root/.enchant/myspell/de_DE_FRAMI.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/local/share/myspell/dicts/de_DE_FRAMI.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/share/myspell/dicts/de_DE_FRAMI.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/share/enchant/myspell/de_DE_FRAMI.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/share/myspell/de_DE_FRAMI.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/root/.config/enchant/myspell", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/root/.enchant/myspell", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/local/share/myspell/dicts", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/myspell/dicts", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/enchant/myspell", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/myspell/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 getdents(4, /* 35 entries */, 32768) = 1272 getdents(4, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0 close(4) = 0 access("/root/.config/enchant/myspell/de.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/root/.enchant/myspell/de.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/local/share/myspell/dicts/de.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/share/myspell/dicts/de.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/share/enchant/myspell/de.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/share/myspell/de.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/root/.config/enchant/myspell", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/root/.enchant/myspell", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/local/share/myspell/dicts", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/myspell/dicts", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/enchant/myspell", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/myspell/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 getdents(4, /* 35 entries */, 32768) = 1272 access("/usr/share/myspell/de_CH_frami.aff", F_OK) = 0 close(4) = 0 access("/usr/share/myspell/de_CH_frami.aff", F_OK) = 0 brk(0x1420000) = 0x1420000 open("/usr/share/myspell/de_CH_frami.aff", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18725, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4aae533000 read(4, "# This is the affix file of the "..., 4096) = 4096 close(4) = 0 munmap(0x7f4aae533000, 4096) = 0 brk(0x1410000) = 0x1410000 open("/usr/share/myspell/de_CH_frami.dic", O_RDONLY) = 4
Created attachment 318438 [details] full strace output of enchant
as suggested from strace symlinking to uppercase dictionaries solves the issue: /usr/share/myspell/de_DE_FRAMI.aff -> /usr/share/hunspell/de_DE_frami.aff /usr/share/myspell/de_DE_FRAMI.dic -> /usr/share/hunspell/de_DE_frami.dic
I would say there is bug in the enchant. Because it should roll the filenames in proper order again with the lowercase frami. I don't even get why it tries to open de_DE with uppercase frami while it goes for the de_CH with lowercase one...
> I don't even get why it tries to open de_DE with uppercase frami while it > goes for the de_CH with lowercase one... Maybe its some kind of heuristic approach to select the first file starting with "de" it can find. This guess came into my mind because my other computer selects de_AT. Both directories on the different computers contain the same files. therefore its some kind of random behavior.
Well I would really blame enchant. Because even debian use the lowercase version: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/hunspell-de-de-frami/filelist
i reported the problem upstream: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13387
This bug is fixed maybe by 2012.06.17-r1 as i had to remove the _frami anyway? Could you verify it?
it works for me with =app-dicts/myspell-de-2012.06.17-r1
Great, closing as fixed for us, maybe upstream fix it properly for all names later.
reopening because the change causes trouble with kde. on the command line everything works fine now. e.g.: echo Strasse | enchant -d de_DE -a @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 1.6.0) & Strasse 9 0: Straße, Strass, Strapse, -trasse, Stresse, Astrasse, Ostrasse, Trasse, Terrasse but in KDE German spell checking does not work at all. every string is correct. so it seems to be disabled.
Created attachment 341784 [details, diff] Patch to modify uppercase normalization in enchant This bug was so annoying to me that I decided to write the attached patch. With the patch enchant converts only the substring between the first and second underscore characters to uppercase. The rest of the string will be converted to lowercase. So, instead of looking for 'de_DE_FRAMI' it will be looking for 'de_DE_frami'. I'm not a C programmer, but I think the code is correct. However, the patch may cause troubles with other dictionaries relying on the existing uppercase conversion.
Is there any standard for the upper/lower case writing of these files or is it just "how it is"? Why is the case important anyway? Could we simply ignore it?
Honestly from what I see the case should be ignored.
Because applications seem to use very different naming schemes (e.g. en-us) enchant tries to normalize the dictionary name before looking for it on the file system. The '_frami' extension which is treated as a part of the (uppercase) territory by enchant. When it can't find a matching dictionary it simply chooses the first from the list of files with de_DE prefix (i.e. de_CH_frami in this case). I'm not an expert, but a case-insensitive lookup would certainly make more sense. However, it would require a lot more changes in enchant's code than I am able to do without breaking it. I also submitted the patch upstream. I hope it will at least bring some discussion about special cases like this one.
There is a new version of myspell-de: app-dicts/myspell-de-r1 I'm pretty sure that it will solve the problem. Can you install this package and retry, please? Notes: 1) the package is still keyworded - you have to add this package to /etc/portage/package.keywords. 2) The filenames of the German dictionaries were changed (which is the solution of the problem). You may have to re-select the language if you start your program for the first time
it works on the terminal right now, but i get problems in kde. Every word is accepted in kde as correct spelling. However, when i start with a clean .kde4 folder, the problem is gone. Therefore this might be some settings problem from me. Maybe someone can evaluate if this is a general migration problem in kde or a specific problem of my settings? If it is general, we should add some notification during the update, what the user needs to change to make kde working again.
i just noted that this was a double post. "right now" is the 2012.06.17-r1 version :-)
OK the solution to the kde problem was pointet to me in an irc session: One need to grep for _frami in all kde config files, since some apps like kile and kate do not update the old dictionary from de_DE_frami even if the language is changed to another language and than back to german. ~/.kde4/share/config $ grep -ir "_frami" * katerc:defaultLanguage=de_DE_frami kilerc:defaultLanguage=de_DE_frami Deleting that line form the config files helps. So maybe we should give a hint to the users when upgrading to the latest version of myspell_de.
Where is exactly the problem? enchant or myspell-de? Are *both* upstreams aware? Also, not sure how other distributions are handling this :/
closing, as the reopening cause is a kde problem and not a enchant or myspell one. I will open an extra bug for this upstream.
