Bug 141743

Summary:	Consider the inclusion the thesaurus dictionary for en_AU
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Mattia Rizzolo <mattia>
Component:	Linguistic	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	ilmari.lauhakangas, mattia, sophi
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Mattia Rizzolo 2021-04-18 12:37:38 UTC

Hi!

In Debian we have this package:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openoffice.org-en-au
Besides the hunspell dictionary (wrongly named myspell- there) which is already in libreoffice-dictionaries, that package also provides a mythes-en-au dictionary.

Here are the sources:
https://sources.debian.org/src/openoffice.org-en-au/2.1-5.5/

However, the maintainer for that package seems to have disappeared more than a decade ago…
Reading through the README and following URLs, I *believe* the dictionary was provided by this guy: https://www.australian-dictionary.com.au/
I haven't tried contacting him to see if that's the right place, but for sure the fact that he doesn't publish tarballs directly is annoying.

As such, I wonder if somebody from LibreOffice is interested in chasing this down, and including an en-au thesaurus dictionary.

(Unrelated, I also note that libreoffice-dictionaries also doesn't provide an en-gb dict for mythes!  But I have no idea where to find that…)


Thank you for considering! :)

Comment 1 spspinz 2023-04-05 18:14:09 UTC

Hi Mattia,

Thank you for your suggestion! It sounds like a great project, but I am wondering if you have taken a look at Tools>Language>More Dictionaries Online for a new extension in your LO version.

Also, there is an updated en-AU dictionary extension that you may be interested in downloading here: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/english-dictionaries

We hope these tips work for you!

Comment 2 Buovjaga 2023-04-05 18:21:51 UTC

English dictionaries we ship are in https://git.libreoffice.org/dictionaries/+/refs/heads/master/en/

I'm not seeing an en_AU thesaurus there, so let's keep this open

Comment 3 spspinz 2023-04-05 19:55:02 UTC

(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #2)
> English dictionaries we ship are in
> https://git.libreoffice.org/dictionaries/+/refs/heads/master/en/
> 
> I'm not seeing an en_AU thesaurus there, so let's keep this open

Thanks Buovjaga for the correction!
Maybe Mattia can forward this request to the openthesaurus.de group mentioned in bug 36695.

gleppert@gmx.de 2012-07-27 20:35:10 UTC
@Olivier: Most LibreOffice thesaurus are developed in a community way (see openthesaurus.de) and they include lots of colloquial or dialect words you don't want to have in a spell check dictionary.