Bug 30988
| Summary: | AbiWord's american.hash dictionary appears corrupted/useless | ||
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| Product: | Ports & Packages | Reporter: | John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper> |
| Component: | Individual Port(s) | Assignee: | freebsd-gnome (Nobody) <gnome> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | gnome |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports->gnome over to maintainer State Changed From-To: open->feedback This is known problem. Unfortunately, the recipy provided in the PR doesn't quite work, all I'm getting after replacing hash: $ AbiWord Illegal format hash table /usr/local/share/AbiSuite/dictionary/american.hash - expected magic2 0x9602, got 0x0 Yes, it worked with the previous version of AbiWord, but not now. Odd that they would change the format of the speller hash files. -- jmc State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Abi finally fixed the problem with speller in Abiword 0.99.1. Please use usual cvsup magick to update your system. Thank you for reporting! |
The american.hash supplied with AbiWord (0.9.4) appears to be either corrupted or useless. You know a spell checker is having a bad day when it marks words like "the", "a", and "an" as spelling errors--along with every other word. Fortunately, the fix is easy! :) Fix: Steps: 1) build/install the ispell port if you haven't already; 2) compare the american.hash files in the two installs-- ${LOCALBASE}/share/AbiSuite/dictionary/american.hash 859352 bytes ${LOCALBASE}/share/ispell/american.hash 5524040 bytes :) 3) rename AbiSuite's american.hash to american.hash.bad 4) copy ispell's american.hash to AbiSuite/dictionary/american.hash . . . and observe how spell checking now works . . . :) NOTE: This technique probably works for other languages too (untested). How-To-Repeat: Load up or create an American English document. Spell check it. Enjoy how it marks every word as a spelling error. :)