Posted by John Nichel on 12/20/05 16:28

Adi wrote:
> I am having a problem switching dictionaries from 'american', 'british' and
> 'canadian' English in pspell. Pspell seems to test everything against the
> american dictionary for some reason. I tested aspell on command line and
> worked fine if I supplied the dictionary I wanted to use with the –d option.
> Below is some basic code I used to test this in php:
>
>
>
> <?php
>
> $string = "color";
>
>
>
> $pspell_link = pspell_new("en", "canadian");
>
>
>
> if (!pspell_check($pspell_link, $string)) {
>
> $suggestions = pspell_suggest($pspell_link, $string);
>
>
>
> foreach ($suggestions as $suggestion) {
>
> echo "Possible spelling: $suggestion<br />";
>
> }
>
> } else {
>
> echo "All good";
>
> }
>
> ?>
>
>
>
> The output was "All good" instead of a list of suggestions. Also, when I
> tested the string "colour" with pspell_new("en", "american"); pspell
> accepted the spelling…aspell on the other hand worked as expected in shell.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

I had a problem similiar to this a couple of years ago; don't know if
this will help, but.... How is your version of php installed (from
source, RPM, another package?) If you installed php/aspell from source,
check to see if your system also has aspell installed as an RPM (or
other package).

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John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
716.856.9675
jnichel@dotcomholdingsofbuffalo.com

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