Re: RFC: new features

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 09:24 -0800, John Ralls wrote: 
> On Jan 12, 2012, at 3:32 AM, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> > SPELL CHECKING
> > Once again, a full spell checking api may belong in glib, but I'd be happy
> > enough to have it in gtk and easily enabled for TextView and TextEntry
> 
> It already exists as an add-on package: http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net
> It works quite well, and has recently been revived under a new maintainer after languishing for a couple of years.

There's an old bug with patches still open for adding spell checking
support to GTK+ -- although GIO would be a better fit these days.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383706

The discussion got bogged down in some tangent about word-splitting, but
several years ago I took Marco's "GSpell" patches and adapted them for
GtkHtml and they've been working splendidly for Evolution ever since.

The API uses iso-codes to extract language names and enchant for the
actual spell-checking.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkhtml/tree/components/editor
(toward the bottom -- gtkhtml-spell-*)

Matthew Barnes