Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

[Martyn Russell <martyn russell bt com>]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:57 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> No hard and fast numbers, but I think I could say with confidence that
> spell checking would benefit a lot of random places. If it was an option
> that could be activated with ease, it is more likely to turn up in those
> places.
> 
> Some examples I can think of:
>  - X-chat
>  - Gossip (it has a kind-of-something)/Gaim

We use ASpell, we do not depend on it.  At the time (late last year) we
decided to use Aspell over enchant, the rational is here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127338#c22

Support in GTK would be great, but that I think would be needed is
supporting multiple languages at once.  This is something I have been
meaning to work in Gossip.

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Regards,
Martyn