8992 – The British ispell dictionary is a British-American hybrid.

Bug 8992 - The British ispell dictionary is a British-American hybrid.

Summary: The British ispell dictionary is a British-American hybrid.

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-10-10 15:06 UTC by Arkadiusz Mucha
Modified:	2003-09-09 03:39 UTC (History)
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Description Arkadiusz Mucha 2002-10-10 15:06:02 UTC

When I want to check a word with the British dictionary (ispell -d british), the
program accepts both British and American spellings. For instance both traveling
and travelling are marked as OK.

The problem seems to be related to the /usr/share/dict/words file.
I removed the /usr/share/dict/words, created an empty one and re-emerged ispell.
This time the British dictionary accepted only British spellings.

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-13 05:45:19 UTC

miscfiles-1.3-r2 no longer installs the words symlink, just the words.extra symlink.

Comment 2 Mårten Svantesson 2003-08-05 06:04:33 UTC

This bug should be reopened since removing /usr/share/dict/words broke stuff (like the compilation of ispell...) and the file is now present again (miscfiles-1.3-r1 is now the default again). 

I haven't studied this closely, but i think a fix really should include removing /usr/share/dict/words from the EXTRADICTS options to amarican and british in local.h in ispell-3.2.06-gentoo.diff.

Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-09 03:39:22 UTC

finally fixed this for real