[PLUG] Fwd: Re: How to update Aspell dictionary in Ubuntu 18.04

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On 2 May 2019, 7:16 AM, at 7:16 AM, "Skool!lookS•InkarNatioN" <look.kool at guruvision.com> wrote:
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>On 1 May 2019, 8:57 PM, at 8:57 PM, Swarup <dinbandhu at sprynet.com>
>wrote:
>>I have installed Ubuntu 18.04; although Aspell is installed and I have
>>installed the Hindi dictionary, but I need to install my personal word
>>list into the dictionary. I have my custom file hi.cwl, but I am not
>>certain where to install it.
>>
>>I wanted to try to figure things out myself as far as possible, and I
>>found what I thought might be the correct location:
>>/usr/share/aspell/hi.cwl.gz
>>
>>So I tried removing the file hi.cwl.gz from there, and replacing it
>>with my hi.cwl.gz. I have rebooted the computer, started the
>>spellchecker in Gedit, and opened a Hindi file and spellchecked it. I
>>have also converted an instance of my custom hi.cwl to its hi.wl form,
>>opened it in Gedit, and compared the words to those underlined in red
>>in my test hindi document. There are lots of words in the hi.wl file
>>which are underlined in red in the test document, proving that the
>>hi.cwl.gz file which I have installed is not working in the
>>spellchecker. I do not know what hi.cwl the Aspell program is using,
>>but it is not using the hi.cwl.gz file which I installed.
>>
>>I will also add that in my home folder, there is a folder
>>/home/swarup/.config/enchant, and in this enchant folder there are
>>number of dictionary files including these two:
>>
>>/home/swarup/.config/enchant/en_US.dic
>>/home/swarup/.config/enchant/hi.dic
>>
>>I know for a fact that the Gedit spellchecker uses these, as they
>>correspond with the words underlined and not underlined in my test
>>document when I select spell checker language as English or as Hindi.
>>And it was like this in my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installation as well. But
>>it used to use my hi.cwl file as well. I used to regularly open the
>>hi.cwl file as an hi.wl and add words to it, and it worked fine. And
>>when I would be working in a Gedit file and come across a single red
>>underlined word and click on the spellchecker option to add it to the
>>dictionary, then it would add it to
>>/home/swarup/.config/enchant/hi.dic. In that way, I have 11,000 words
>>in this file. But I also have 90,000 words in my hi.cwl file, and so
>>the functionality of this file is also vital to the spell checker.
>>
>>Kindly let me know how to move ahead so as to get the hi.cwl file
>>working. Do you think it may need to do cd to the folder and execute
>>the commands ./configure, make, sudo make install? That is what I
>>always used to have to do to get updated instances of my hi.cwl file
>>active in Aspell in Ubuntu 14.04 as well as previous installations of
>>Ubuntu. In those days though it was hi.cwl which was installed and not
>>hi.cwl.gz; don't know what impact this has on what is needed to
>>activate the hi.cwl file.
>>
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