[Dict-common-dev] Including aspell pwli files in the dict-common policy?

[Agustín Martín Domingo]

Hi all,

Peter, I am cc'ing you because of your ITA on aspell. Domenico already 
reads the dict-common-dev list.

I made some minor changes in the pwli files section of the dict-common 
policy and thought about merging in that section the equivalent info and 
requirements for aspell dictionaries. I did a first draft for that and 
would like to know what the aspell people think about the draft itself 
and about including it in the dict-common policy document.

Here goes the draft:

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The pspell pwli files for ispell and aspell dictionaries

All ispell and aspell dictionary packages must provide the corresponding 
pspell-ispell or pspell-aspell pwli file for each supplied dictionary. 
That pwli file must be installed at /usr/share/pspell and named as

<language>[-[<spelling>][-<jargon>]]-ispell.pwli

for ispell dictionaries and

<language>[-[<spelling>][-<jargon>]]-aspell.pwli

for aspell dictionaries, where <language> is the two letter language 
code, <spelling> is the particular spelling when the language has 
multiple spellings in different parts of the world such as English and 
<jargon> is any extra informations to distinguish the hash from other 
ones with the same language and spelling. <language> is always required 
while <spelling> and <jargon> not.

If the spelling is left out but the jargon is not, there needs to be two 
dashes between the language and the jargon. For instance 
de--medical-ispell.pwli

Each pwli file for a ispell dictionary contains exactly one line which 
contains the full path of the main ispell hash, white space, then the 
charset in the pspell way, e.g. iso8859-1, koi8-r. Currently allowed 
values are iso8859-1 to iso8859-15, koi8-r and cp1252.

Each pwli file for an aspell wordlist should contain exactly one line 
which contains the full path of the main aspell wordlist.

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