[libvoikko] No zhfst support in LibreOffice-voikko 5.0?

Sjur Moshagen sjurnm at mac.com
Thu Jan 7 23:10:38 EET 2016


Hi!

7. jan. 2016 kl. 17:32 skrev Harri Pitkänen <hatapitk at iki.fi>:
> On Thursday 07 January 2016 13:00:13 Sjur Moshagen wrote:
>> Since all of LO-voikko 5.0, libvoikko 4.0, and voikko-fi-2.0 were announced
>> and released at the same time, I had assumed that support for zhfst (ie
>> hfst-ospell backend) was enabled by default for all spellers, including
>> LO-voikko. This seems not to be the case.
> 
> At the source level libreoffice-voikko makes no assumptions about backends, it 
> supports the formats that libvoikko supports.

Sure.

> Your issue is related to the fact that the libraries and dictionaries for this 
> extension package were built in October while the default configuration 
> changes in libvoikko were made in November. Thus this particular extension has 
> no support for ZHFST or VFST formats, only Malaga. I had to do this because I 
> received so many bug reports about issues with 64 bit LibreOffice (released in 
> June) that there was no time to wait until December and the final releases.

Ok.

> The next Finnish spell checker release for LibreOffice will surely support 
> ZHFST and VFST. I expect to release it in a few months (hopefully along with 
> some additional improvements in the VFST backend).

The error report is by one user who depends on both the Finnish and the North Sami spell checker on Windows 7. He is using LO 5.0, and as it is now, he is not able to install both languages.

I can probably build an OSX version myself, but not a Windows version.

Sjur



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