Messenger Express additional dictionary for spell check
I would like to configure an extra/new dictionary in messenger express 6.
"./configutil -o local.supportedlanguages" allows me to add additional language support, but that doesn't provide any spell checking support, obviously.
Sun provides instructions on how to add custom dictionaries in the 5.2 release:
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6010-10/uicst.htm
[# ./buildhash german.dico german.aff ge.hash
which I hoped would also apply for messenger express 6, but no such luck.
I have no problem making the dictionary by following the ispell instructions but when I copy the resulting hash file to the messenger lib directory and try and use the new language file messenger express webmail client gives a server error stating that that language is unavailable.
The exact error as displayed in the messenger logs is "Illegal format hash table /opt/SUNWmsgsr/lib/nl.hash - expected magic2 0x9602, got 0x0"
Has anyone either instructions on how to make a working dictionary or pointers where to find dutch spell check support for messenger express?
Thanks in Advance.
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hbruijna] at [2007-11-27 5:48:44]
# 1
here may be a clue:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1995/11/msg00050.html
it says: perhaps ispell is compiled to support either 7bit or 8bit, but your dictionaries don't agree - e.g. they are 7bit when ispell is 8bit or vise versa - it suggests converting any characters in the dictionary to match your ispell's bit support. or you could recompile ispell to support your dictionaries.
# 2
Thanks starman7,
that was indeed the problem.
I copied the pre-installed dictionary files and the one I had generated myself with the ispell buildhash to my linux workstation, where the better configured file magic showed the following difference:
My nl.hash: big endian ispell 3.1 hash file, 7-bit, capitalization, 52 flags and 512 string characters
Supplied en.hash: big endian ispell 3.1 hash file, 8-bit, capitalization, 52 flags and 100 string characters
Both the ispell version from sunfreeware.org as well as the ispell version from the SUN Solaris companion were unable to make a 8-bit hash file from the dutch ispell wordlist and .aff files. Even building ispell from source resulted in a buildhash that would make 7-bit hashes instead of the required 8-bit ones. The buildhash one my Linux workstation generated a 8-bit hash from the same source files, so the problem wasn't in the dutch source files.
Final solution, I logged in on one of the production servers instead of the development ones I'm supposed to develop on. They proved to be installed slightly differently and had a buildhash binary installed in msg_svr_base/lib, apparently part of the messenger express install. Using that one instead of the ispell one resulted in a perfectly compatible dictionary and dutch spell check.
msg_svr_base/lib/buildhash dutch96.lat dutch96.aff msg_svr_base/lib/nl.hash
msg_svr_base/sbin/configutil -o local.supportedlanguages -v "[en,nl,es,fr,de]"
# 3
hi hbruijn,
glad to be of service (not that i know anything about making dictionaries!).
your information should be useful to someone in the future.
at first i was wondering if this was big vs. little endian.
maybe that your linux is likely little endian while solaris is big was related to the problem too?
thanks again,
s7
