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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: hunspell (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Check spelling in more than one language, or rather dictionaries

Status in hunspell package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: hunspell

  Ubuntu 10.04 up to date.

  This problem also concerns programs using hunspell, but there may be a
  solution within hunspell alone, see below.

   1. What you expect to happen
  The same as what happens, but without the stated inconveniences

   2. What actually happens

  All the applications I have seen checking my spelling propose in a
  menu to choose "a language", if not "your language" as if I were
  allowed to write only one.

  The product they're using is introducing itself as follows:
  hunspell [-1aDGHhLlmnstvw] [-d dict[,dict2,...]] ... [file(s)]
  In particular:
    -d dict,dict2,...
  Set  dictionaries  by  their  base  names with or without paths.
  Example of the syntax:
         -d en_US,en_geo,en_med,de_DE,de_med
  en_US and de_DE are base dictionaries, they consist of aff and dic file
  pairs:  en_US.aff, en_US.dic and de_DE.aff, de_DE.dic.  En_geo, en_med,
  de_med are  special  dictionaries:  dictionaries  without  affix  file.
  Special  dictionaries  are  optional extension of the base dictionaries
  usually with special (medical, law etc.)  terms.  There  is  no  naming
  convention   for  special  dictionaries,  only  the  ".dic"  extension:
  dictionaries without affix file will be an extension of  the  preceding
  base  dictionary  (right  order  of  the  parameter list needs for good
  suggestions).  First  item  of  -d  parameter  list  must  be  a   base
  dictionary.

  Obviously, spell-checking in the eyes of hunspell is not a matter of one language but of several dictionaries.
  And, as can be seen from hunspell's example (being also my own experience), spelling in more than one language and specialized dictionaries is EXTREMELY useful.

  I have been able to add non-Ubuntu dictionaries to hunspell, but not to use several concurrently.
  I tried a hack: creating a "fr_FR,en_US.aff" file in hope that the syntax -d fr_FR,en_US would trick hunspell.
  But it didn't work.

  The best I can imagine as a present or future feature is a dictionary-
  list keyword in a .aff file to indicate a list of files to use and a
  tool for the user to add it, such as fr+en.aff meaning that the list
  fr.FR,en.US, en.GB must be used.

  hunspell et al is badly documented beyond "click your language".
  How can multiple dictionaries spell-checking be done?

  3. The minimal series of steps necessary to make it happen, where step 1 is "start the program"
  all of the above plus "start the programs"

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