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Last updated 2002 January 16

Note

This page house dictionaries for OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org starting with build OO641C allows users to easily install dictionaries built for the MySpell spell checker.

Installation Instructions

To install these dictionaries in OOo build OO641C or later:

1. unzip the dictionary file in the OpenOffice.org user/wordbook/ directory
   
   
2. edit the dictionary.lst file that is in that same directory using any text editor to register a dictionary for a specific locale (the same dictionary can be registered for multiple locales).
   
   For example:

   To add the de_DE.zip dictionary under the German (Germany) locale to OOo you would:
   

   cd OpenOffice.org641/user/wordbook unzip de_DE.zip

   And then using any text editor add the following line to dictionary.lst:
   

   DICT de DE de_DE

   
   This line tells OOo to register the affix file de_DE.aff and the wordlist de_DE.dic to the locale de DE which is German (Germany). The specific fields of this line are:
   
   Field 1: Entry Type "DICT" is the only supported entry type so far
   Field 2: Language code from Locale "en" or "de" or "pt" ... (see ISO Language Code page)
   Field 3: Country code from Locale "US" or "GB" or "PT" ... (see ISO Country Code page)
   Field 4: Root name of Dictionary "english" or "en_US" or ... (do not add the .aff or .dic extensions to the name)
   

   
   
3. Start up OpenOffice.org. and go to:
   
   Tools->Options->LanguageSettings->WritingAids
   
   Hit "Edit" and use the pull down menu to select your locale and then make sure to check the MySpell SpellChecker for that locale.

That it! Your dictionary is installed and registered for that language.

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Dictionary
Language	File	Notes
Croation (Croatia)	hr_HR.zip	[Release Notes]
Dutch (Netherland)	nl_NL.zip	[Release Notes]
English (Canada)	en_CA.zip	[Release Notes]
English (United Kingdom)	en_GB.zip	[Release Notes]
English (United States)	en_US.zip	[Release Notes]
French (France)	fr_FR.zip	[Release Notes]
German (Germany)	de_DE.zip	[Release Notes]
Greek (Greece)	el_GR.zip	[Release Notes]
Greek (Greece) Enhanced!	el_GR-enhanced.zip	[Release Notes]
Hungarian (Hungary)	hu_HU.zip	[Release Notes]
Italian (Italy)	it_IT.zip	[Release Notes]
Portuguese (Portugal)	pt_PT.zip	[Release Notes]
Spanish (Spain)	es_ES.zip	[Release Notes]

 

Contributing Dictionary

If you would like to make your own dictionary or learn how to convert an Ispell dictionary to work with MySpell please check out:
http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/dictionary.html

If you would like to contribute a new MySpell dictionary to OpenOffice.org, please contact Kevin Hendricks.