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Bug#307611: aspell-bin: Soundslike is not used when looking up corrections |
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Wed, 04 May 2005 09:23:32 +0200 |
Package: aspell-bin
Version: 0.60.2+20050121-2
Severity: important
Even for dictionaries with "soundslike" activated, Aspell does not use
soundslike when looking up corrections. A demonstration:
First the preparations:
% sudo apt-get install aspell-fr
% echo $'bordeaux\nbordo' > test_soundslike
Exactly the same problem also exists in Danish, but here we use the
French dictionary, since there are reported other bugs against
"aspell-da".
Now we check the "soundslike" of the two words:
% LANG=fr_FR aspell soundslike < test_soundslike
bordeaux PORTO
bordo PORTO
As you can see, Aspell knows that these two strings would be
pronounced roughly the same.
Then ask Aspell to check the file for misspellings:
% LANG=fr_FR aspell check test_soundslike
Aspell (correctly) accepts "bordeaux".
Then it (also correctly) complains about "bordo". But the suggestions
for correcting the error are:
1) bord 6) borde
2) ordo 7) bord
3) bords 8) porto
4) boldo 9) bordai
5) borda 0) bordons
Of which only "porto" has the same soundslike as "bordeaux" and
"bordo".
This error basically means that the Aspell version in Debian is no
better than Ispell, while it is wasting more disk space and doesn't
have to code-maturity which Ispell has.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fo_FO.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fo_FO.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages aspell-bin depends on:
ii libaspell15 0.60.2+20050121-2 The GNU Aspell spell-checker runti
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-12 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
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