Re: an update for the romanian spell checker

Vanilla Ice wrote:

> The latest (utf8) spell check file for Vim for romanian language, from
> http://ftp.vim.org/vim/runtime/spell/ is still using the old (and
> wrong) diacritics (cedilla form of șțȘȚ and î instead of â inside of
> words).
>
> The other method - using the 'spell-mkspell' method from vim's
> excellent help docs - does not yield by default a valid .spl file,
> using any recent (3 year or less) version of ro_RO.aff and ro_RO.dic
> (the newest being
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/rospell/files/Romanian%20dictionaries/dict-3.3.10/ro_RO.3.3.10.zip).
>
> I took some time to look at the fawlty 'ro_RO.aff' format (previously
> total 'foreign' to me) and noticed that at some points, the authors
> forgot to place the 5th element in some lines (presumably a dot i.e.
> anything goes). So instead of this:
>
> "SFX q 0 ă ."
>
> it had this:
>
> "SFX q 0 ă"
>
> on several lines, which i can only suppose made Vim think that it met
> another suffix group which had 'ă' elements (obviously not a number)
> -> error, causing the rest of the file to be ignored.
>
> I attached an updated utf8 romanian file from the latest (3.3.10)
> romanian spell files, if anyone close to home (in spirit, at least) is
> there to use it. Of course, with the above file corrected by the above
> addition, anybody can use the standard method and make his/hers own
> spell file.
>
> Obviously this is something for the authors of the .aff files to take
> care of. On the other hand, i saw the exactly same error discussed on
> some other OpenOffice (or Mozilla) site. Since 1) it's very easy to
> forget the dot on such a line, 2) the authors of such files are not
> necessarily software developers, so the strictness should not be on
> their backs and 3) such a line is expected to be part of a 4-element
> prefix or suffix group defined above with a KNOWN / EXPECTED number of
> entries, perhaps something could be done to the vim src/spell.c so
> that such a "expected 5th element is missing" could be translated to a
> dot. But - what do i know - only if this happens to another languages
> as well.

Thanks for figuring this out. Can you please send me the .dic and .aff
files you used to generate this .spl file? Or better: the URL of the
files to be downloaded and a diff on top of that.


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