Problems with recognition of dictionary files

[allefeld]

Under several circumstances, additional non-functional entries appear in the list of spelling languages.

– I copied several dictionaries for use with Spell Right from the hunspell_dictionaries collection maintained by Chromium, and I ran into a problem with the Oxford spelling dictionary, en_GB_oxendict.

If ~/.config/Code/Dictionaries (Linux) contains en_GB_oxendict.dic and en_GB_oxendict.aff, I get two entries in the language list, "en_GB_oxendict" + "en_GB_oxe", and neither of them works.

As a workaround, I invented the country "OX" and renamed the files to en_OX.dic and en_OX.aff, and now I get one language entry "en_OX", and it does work.

But it would be great if the extension could deal with such file names of the form language_country_variant automatically.

– The Chromium collection also contains files with extension .dic_delta, which are word lists which may be added to the .dic file.

If such a file is present in ~/.config/Code/Dictionaries, it is displayed as an additional language entry, which however does not work.

Merging the delta into the .dic file manually is not very hard (concatenate, sort, update number of words), but it would be more convenient if it could be automatically treated as an additional list of valid words.

If not, it should be ignored and not lead to an entry in the language list.

– For some reason, my ~/.config/Code/Dictionaries already contained a file en-US-10-1.bdic, maybe from another extension. This, too, leads to an entry in the language list which doesn't work. I believe files in this binary format are not supported by the extension, which is not a problem, but they should be ignored.

Thanks!