Re: Antw: [aspell-devel] API enhancements

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Christoph Hintermueller wrote:

> >>> Andrew Dunbar <address@hidden> 21.06.03 07.40 Uhr >>>
> 
> > To achieve this efficiently, we need to be able to ask
> > Aspell which languages it supports, this means an
> > enumeration API to return all supported language tags:
> > en, de, fr or en-US, en-GB, en-AU etc.
>
> As far as i have insight into aspells language mechanism there is no
> compiled in list of languages supported.

This is correct.  Nor are there any plans to.

> > We also need an API which will tell us whether a given
> > language is installed or not. Currently we can just try
> > to open each dictionary but we would prefer a less
> > expensive API which does not have to initialize an
> > entire spelling engine which is only going to be
> > destructed again.

Aspell 0.50 and better has a way to list the installed dictionaries. I 
attached the example file 'list-dicts.c' which is included in the 
examples/ directory.

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