Bug#929923: missing dictionaries.xcu confuses non-US English locales (e.g. en_AU)
tag 929923 - wontfix
retitle 929923 mythes-en-us: add symlinks for en_AU etc.
thanks
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 12:51:44PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Do you agree so far?
Yes
> The solution
> ============
> I think on non-Debian, LibreOffice knows that en_* should use
> th_en_US_v2 because of dictionaries/en/dictionaries.xcu:
>
> https://sources.debian.org/src/libreoffice-dictionaries/1:6.2.0-1/dictionaries/en/dictionaries.xcu/#L82
> https://sources.debian.org/src/libreoffice-dictionaries/1:6.2.0-1/dictionaries/en/dictionaries.xcu/#L90
>
> I think without that XML, LibreOffice guesses based on the file name.
Exactly.
> c. make some crappy symlinks th_en_XX_v2.dic -> th_en_US_v2.dic.
> This works for me.
>
> The downside is that debian/*.links and
> dictionaries/*/dictionaries.xcu can get out of sync.
>
>
> UPDATE: I just noticed you are already doing (c) for other languages, e.g.
>
> https://sources.debian.org/src/libreoffice-dictionaries/1:6.2.0-1/debian/mythes-es.links/
>
> So, I am simply proposing to do the same for English.
Yeah, one can do that...
Regards,
Rene
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