[Inx] Dictionary questions

David Symons david.symons at liberatedcomputing.net
Mon Jul 21 13:21:46 PDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Peter Garrett <inx-one at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Shelagh was asking on IRC about the lack of dictionaries in INX.
>
> Originally I made the decision to use only "dict", which looks up words
> from "dict.org"
>
> Now, supposing we added word lists for /usr/share/dict/words ....
>
> British spelling? US spelling?
>
> Culture wars! *g*
>
> Thoughts?

Settable option?  Related to locale?  It seems Ubuntu somehow does
this during its installation.

> do people think 24 hour time is OK

Yes.  If enabling a choice is a proving difficult it's not worth pursuing imo.

Cheers, Dave.
-- 
David Symons
Armidale NSW Australia
http://www.liberatedcomputing.net



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