1967733 - Investigate shipping Ayaspell dictionary with our Arabic builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ar / Arabic, enhancement)

Description

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

We do not ship our Arabic builds with a dictionary.

There is an Arabic dictionary project: https://github.com/linuxscout/ayaspell

Ayaspell project aims to provide Arabic dictionaries for free office applications like OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, abiword, gedit ...etc. This project is under GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license.

Licence: GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1/MPL 1.1 tri-license
(https://github.com/linuxscout/ayaspell/blob/master/COPYING)

Latest version is 3.7
Authors:
Developpers: Taha Zerrouki: http://tahadz.com taha dot zerrouki at gmail dot com Collect data manually Mohamed Kebdani, Morroco < med.kebdani gmail.com>

We should evaluate if this would be useful to our users and probably need feedback on the quality from our localizers.
An older version of the dictionary (3.2) is available on AMO https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/arabic-spell-checking-dictiona/

Comment 1

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - OOO]]

Adding Abood as he may be able to help weigh in.
I've also contacted Johnes via email as I don't think they have a bugzilla account.

Comment 2

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Attachment: GitHub Pull Request

Pull request, I don't think any extra data is needed to add a locale, I can update the PR if something else needs to be modified in the repo to add a new locale dictionary.

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Merged, marking fixed.

Keeping a relnote flag open as this should be mentioned in our 140 release notes.

Comment 4

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: Arabic Firefox builds now come with an Arabic dictionary making spellchecking possible without the installation of an add-on
[Affects Firefox for Android]: no
[Suggested wording]: Firefox builds in Arabic now come with a built-in Arabic dictionary for the Firefox spellchecker.
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]:

Comment 5

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Thanks, added to the Fx140 beta release notes, please allow 30 minutes for the site to update.
Keeping the relnote-firefox flag as ? to keep it on the radar for inclusion in the final Fx140 release notes.