[libvoikko] Voikko and Enchant 2

[Børre Gaup]

> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone been using Enchant 2's Voikko plugin with Voikko? E2 has
> landed to Debian recently and Ubuntu and will be the default in
> Ubuntu
> 20.04 LTS.
> 
> I've tried it out and in at least gedit it seems to flag all words as
> incorrect. In suggestions one can choose the same word again, but
> it'll get underlined again as soon as eg space is pressed.
> 
> Does this reflect others' experiences too, and is there something
> wired a bit wrong in Enchant 2's Voikko plugin?
> 
> On the plus side, now Voikko multi-lingual support would work
> otherwise via Enchant, as installing giella-sme results in Northern
> Sami spell-checking as well.
> 
> Finnish: https://www.imgpaste.net/image/o7BIT
> Northern Sami: https://www.imgpaste.net/image/o7lWe
> 

Nice!

I use KDE (via Neon), and KDE's Sonnet library [1] has voikko support,
so by using the nightly Apertium packages, sámi spell checking via
voikko has worked for some time.

But, Sonnet also has Enchant support, which probably will make some
confusion …

[1] https://api.kde.org/frameworks/sonnet/html/index.html

/Børre