Bug 1055112

I've also encountered this en rhel7.

The additional word I noticed was missing: "mitt"

It appears that this an upstream issue with the Norwegian dictionary.

I've sent a message to their mailing list at:

https://lister.ping.uio.no/pipermail/i18n-no/

(My posting from today hasn't shown up yet)

It seems like that until this gets addressed, the previous version should be used... ?

I looked at Ubuntu 14.04: they ship myspell-nb, which appears to be an older version: 2.0.10.  Not sure if this is the same as fc17, since the dictionaries are quite different.

Anyway, I post this information to only suggest Ubuntu (maybe other distros?) may not be running into this because they are using an older version.


I'll also paste my mailing list message here for reference since it hasn't show up on the mailing list archives yet:

( https://lister.ping.uio.no/pipermail/i18n-no/ )

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Hello,

My end goal is to do Norwegian spell checking within emacs.  Emacs on
my linux distribution (centos7) is using hunspell.  I got that
working, but it turns out there are several basic words that are   
missing from the dictionary.

For example, this command line example shows the issue:
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$ hunspell -d nb_NO
Hunspell 1.3.2
og
& og 10 0: org, tog, log, dog, bog, os, or, ok, om, Ogna

mitt
& mitt 15 0: nitt, mutt, mott, mit, smitt, mett, mint, mist, sitt,
ritt, titt, matt, milt, litt, kitt

min
*
-----------------------------

This is showing that 'og' and 'mitt' were not in the dictionary, but
'min' was.

Sure enough, they are missing from 'nb_NO.dic'.  I noticed that the
previous version (2.0.10) of the dictionary was 4.9 MB, where as the
2.1 version is only 3.9 MB.

Comparing the two files with diffstat:

diff -u 2.0/nb_NO.dic 2.1/nb_NO.dic | diffstat
 nb_NO.dic |77164
 +++-----------------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 4500 insertions(+), 72664 deletions(-)

there are a LOT of removed words.

Redhat linux has had this bug report for some time about the new
version missing a lot of words:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055112

Has this issue has been noticed before?  Any plans to release an
update?

Thanks,

Wade

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This is still happening in fedora 22, but it doesn't appear I have rights to change the bug to that version.

Is upstream just totally dead here, no new release since 2012 ? Is there any other group who have emerged to provide more comprehensive dictionaries ? Presumably https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/norsk-bokm%C3%A5l-ordliste/ it just the same dictionaries rebundled ?

I did some testing with firefox:

the dictionary from hunspell-nb show the same errors: the above words were counted as misspelled.

Then I installed the dictionary that was linked in the previous comment: it worked as expected.

There were some follow on comments from my post to the norwegian spelling mailing list.  The relevant thread is:

https://lister.ping.uio.no/pipermail/i18n-no/2015-March/008238.html

They suggest it may be a problem with the build system.  Also, that it only seems to be a problem with using hunspell.  aspell and ispell seem to work fine.  I'll have to do more testing in that regard.

aspell functioned as expected:

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dnf install aspell aspell-no

# aspell -a -d no
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6.1)
jeg
*

og
*

oss
*

seg
*

samme
*

mitt
*

min
*

bread
& bread 6 0: beråd, bred, bredd, breid, bre ad, bre-ad

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But, it looks like they are two different dictionaries...

Looks like debian (sid) is still shipping the old version (2.0.10):

https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/norwegian

hunspell-no-2.0.10-1.fc22 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 22.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hunspell-no-2.0.10-1.fc22

hunspell-no-2.0.10-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hunspell-no-2.0.10-1.fc21

I've verified that the 2.0.10 build works on fedora 22.

Would it be possible to send this update to el7 as well?

el7 is not fedora and thus requires a whole different pile of process, you can file the bug for that against RHEL-7 and I can approve that I could fix it, but after that its out of my hands if it will be fixed.

Package hunspell-no-2.0.10-1.fc21:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing hunspell-no-2.0.10-1.fc21'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-11711/hunspell-no-2.0.10-1.fc21
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

hunspell-no-2.0.10-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.