Issue 128186 - Installed Dutch dictionary is not available in German AOO
Summary: Installed Dutch dictionary is not available in German AOO
Status: CLOSED FIXED_WITHOUT_CODE
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Product: Base
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: 4.1.6
Hardware: PC OS/2
: P5 (lowest) Minor (vote)
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Reported: 2019-08-26 14:23 UTC by Wolfgang Reinken
Modified: 2019-08-30 19:48 UTC (History)
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Description Wolfgang Reinken 2019-08-26 14:23:09 UTC 
I installed the German base packet AOO-4160-GA-base-de.wpi,the language packets AOO-4160-GA-langpack-de.wpi, AOO-4160-GA-langpack-en-US.wpi, AOO-4160-GA-langpack-nl.wpi and the packet AOO-4160-GA-rpm.wpi. 

After installation the following languages for spelchecking were available:
English, German, Italian and French but NO Dutch!

I found a workaround by copying the file dict-nl.oxt from an older OO installation into the dictionary \Programs\ApacheOpenOffice.4\share\extensions

Kind regards
Wolfgang Reinken
Comment 1 Matthias Seidel 2019-08-26 15:00:52 UTC 
At the moment, dictionaries are not part of any language pack!
(This is not specific for OS/2)

If you need additional dictionaries you can download them at:
https://extensions.openoffice.org

For Dutch use:
https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/dutch-spelling-and-hyphenation-dictionary
Comment 2 Wolfgang Reinken 2019-08-26 16:25:47 UTC 
In the README.TXT shipped with the OS/2 version of AOO 1.1.6 I can read:

    ** Installation notes **
  
    - You need only one WPI for you preferred language. For additional languages
      you need only the language WPI to install.

That's why I installed the WPI-file AOO-4160-GA-langpack-nl.wpi for Dutch language support. What purpose is the AOO-4160-GA-langpack-nl.wpi supposed to have otherwise?
Comment 3 Matthias Seidel 2019-08-26 16:29:26 UTC 
A language pack changes the language for the User Interface.

If you want a dictionary, just download and install it.
Comment 4 Wolfgang Reinken 2019-08-26 17:54:34 UTC 
Thank you for the explanation. I had a wrong idea what a language pack does. Sorry for my complains.

Kind regards
Wolfgang Reinken
Comment 5 Matthias Seidel 2019-08-26 18:11:34 UTC 
No problem at all!

Indeed, including dictionaries in language packs has been discussed:
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124473

Regards,
   Matthias

P.S.: Always good to see some OS/2 user here! ;-)