[Dict-common-dev] [Fwd: Bug#283948: PLease integrate squirrelmail with dictionaries-common]

[Agustin Martin]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:12:48AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> I need some assistance with the bug below that has been posted to the BTS
> under squirrelmail. I've looked into it but cannot seem to find out how to
> detect the information needed.
> 

> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Bug#283948: PLease integrate squirrelmail with
> dictionaries-common From:    "Alastair McKinstry" <mckinstry@debian.org>
> Date:    Thu, December 2, 2004 15:16
> To:      "Debian Bug Tracking System" <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Package: squirrelmail
> Version: 2:1.4.3a-3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Squirrelmail should be integrated with dictionaries-common, to
> detect which dictionaries are present for ispell, and which is set for the
> default.
> 

Default is currently stored in /etc/dictionaries-common/ispell-default
(created by a script, not intended for edition) or in debconf,

-------------- perl ------------------------
use Debconf::Client::ConfModule q(:all);

my ($ret, $value) = get ("dictionaries-common/default-ispell");

if ($ret == 0 && $value ){
  $ispell_default = $value;
}
--------------------------------------------

For the list of installed dicts, depends on what exactly you want and how is
the interaction between ispell and squirrelmail. 

For instance, mutt does things through a wrapper to ispell (ispell-wrapper)
provided by dictionaries-common, that will try to take care of encodings.
Code is defined in /usr/share/dictionaries-common/mutt-ispell-init.
For {x}emacs and jed things are more complex and done through special modes.

In the general case, something like 

-------------- perl ------------------------
use Debian::DictionariesCommon q(:all);

$dictionaries      = loaddb ("ispell");

@list = keys %{$dictionaries};
--------------------------------------------

will give you a list of dicts including some declared encoding variants.
If you only want hash names things are different.

Cheers,

-- 
Agustin