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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:48:27 -0500
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On 04/04/12 14:37, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 04/04/2012 Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
>> On 4/4/12 7:56 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
>>> So it looks like we have the major languages covered well. Except 
>>> British
>>> English? Do we have a separate translation there? Or at least a 
>>> separate
>>> spell checking dictionary?
>> I have updated en_GB on Pootle and can include it as well. The coverage
>> looks not bad but I haven't checked the numbers
>> There is no dictionary available as far as I know.
>
> Note that, for some obscure limitation, a popular choice for people 
> who installed a non-English version and needed to use the English 
> interface from time to time was to install the en-GB langpack on the 
> non-English version, since en-US was not available as langpack.
>
> I don't know whether there is an en-GB dictionary available, but it's 
> probably worth having a look at some old (3.4-beta, or 3.3) en-GB 
> langpack.
>

Found it:

http://en-gb.pyxidium.co.uk/dictionary/en_GB.zip

(According to Bugzilla 4168 it is GPL'd)

There are more dictionaries here:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries

Hmm.. according to that page there was once a DicOOo wizard!
Anyone knows anything about it? Sounds like something we
may want to resurrect.

cheers,

Pedro.