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Re: Antw: [aspell-devel] API enhancements
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Kevin Atkinson |
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Re: Antw: [aspell-devel] API enhancements |
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Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:42:13 -0400 (EDT) |
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Christoph Hintermueller wrote:
> >>> Andrew Dunbar <address@hidden> 21.06.03 07.40 Uhr >>>
>
> > To achieve this efficiently, we need to be able to ask
> > Aspell which languages it supports, this means an
> > enumeration API to return all supported language tags:
> > en, de, fr or en-US, en-GB, en-AU etc.
>
> As far as i have insight into aspells language mechanism there is no
> compiled in list of languages supported.
This is correct. Nor are there any plans to.
> > We also need an API which will tell us whether a given
> > language is installed or not. Currently we can just try
> > to open each dictionary but we would prefer a less
> > expensive API which does not have to initialize an
> > entire spelling engine which is only going to be
> > destructed again.
Aspell 0.50 and better has a way to list the installed dictionaries. I
attached the example file 'list-dicts.c' which is included in the
examples/ directory.
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list-dicts.c
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