Re: .cmap and .cset files for languages that share scripts
Gora Mohanty <[email protected]>
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Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote:> Gora Mohanty wrote: >> For languages that share scripts, e.g., Hindi and Marathi that >> share the Devanagari script, packagers of the standard >> aspell dictionary distributions run into a problem because >> both dictionary distributions would contain identical >> u-deva.{cmap,cset} files. However, if one of the dictionaries >> is already installed, the second package reports problems >> with conflicting files, and refuses to install unless things are >> forced. A way around this would be to have separate >> u-deva-hi.txt and u-deva-mr.txt files (from which the >> .cmap/.cset files are generated), in the aspell-lang >> distributions. Of course, these files would be identical, but >> that might not be much of an issue as they are a single line >> each. Is that possible? [...] > I do not see any fundamental problem with distributing > identical .cmap/.cset files in different packages. This files will > NEVER conflict with each other since they should always be > identical. The fact that they are causing you problems is a > limitation of the Debian packaging system. On further reflection after sending this email, I quite agree with you that this is a bug in the Debian packaging system, and not in aspell. I do believe Soumyadip is also now convinced of that, and even has a solution in the pipeline that does not involve changing the aspell dictionary distributions. Regards, Gora Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel