[PATCH] KSpell: support for Hebrew spellchecking

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Thu Apr 24 12:04:27 BST 2003


On Thursday 24 April 2003 11:12, Meni Livne wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> The attached patch should make it possible to spellcheck Hebrew through
> KSpell. Due to the Hebrew language's special nature, it can't use ispell or
> aspell, and uses its own engine, hspell
> (http://www.ivrix.org.il/projects/spell-checker/), which has recently
> reached a usable state. Luckily, hspell can emulate ispell's output, so it
> can be suported in KSpell without too much of a fuss.
>
> If nobody objects, I'll commit this to HEAD. But I was also wondering
> whether it will be OK to commit it KDE_3_1_BRANCH too. 

Yes, that would make sense. I have one question about the patch, why is the 
following necessary?
   case KS_E_LATIN8:
-      codec = QTextCodec::codecForName("ISO 8859-8");
+      codec = QTextCodec::codecForName("ISO 8859-8-i");

Cheers,
Waldo
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