368429 - Find spellchecker dictionaries by environment variable

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Spelling checker, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Weilbacher]

It is my understanding that the spellchecker dictionaries as used by Mozilla products have the same format as those from OpenOffice. It would therefore be great if one could share the same installation of dictionaries between at least these two programs. The easiest way to implement this and a simple way for the user to set this up would be to use an environment variable, like perhaps MOZ_MYSPELL_LOCATION (or without the MOZ_ prefix). The Mozilla implementation could then search the default locations <programdir>/dictionaries/ and <profiledir>/extensions/*/dictionaries/ first and then look in the specified location afterwards.

Not sure if this makes sense on Windows and Linux or if there are default system locations for this already, but I believe it would at least it would make sense on OS/2...

Comment 1

[Steve Wendt]

Opened ticket 1429 for OS/2 port of OpenOffice - unfortunately, not publicly viewable.

Comment 2

[Steve Wendt]

This is perhaps a duplicate of bug 310285, or at least should depend on it.  That one doesn't refer to using an environment variable, however.

Comment 3

[Steve Wendt]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Opened ticket 1429 for OS/2 port of OpenOffice

"The ticket has been opened as ticket #89 in the OpenOffice SVN repo."

Comment 4

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

I think spellchecker.dictionary_path and DICPATH now serves this use case. https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/5644fae86d5122519a0e34ee03117c88c6ed9b47/extensions/spellcheck/hunspell/glue/mozHunspell.cpp#247,258