[sylpheed:34600] it's time for another "why isn't it there yet" message

[Bruce Bowler]

Why isn't there a spell checker in the windows version of sylpheed?

Doing a quick google search shows the link in the forwarded message
still being a source of dictionaries and also this link,
http://www.mail-archive.com/aspell-devel@gnu.org/msg01151.html, which
is about someone who's forked a windows aspell (don't know that it's
"call compatible" with the normal version) that I presume could be used.

This lack of the ability to have in-built spell checking is a *MAJOR*
flaw (in my opinion).

What is it going to take to get this going????

Bruce

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 01:04:20 -0700
From: "Akuma GM" <AkumaGM at mail2techie.com>
To: <sylpheed at sraoss.jp>
Subject: [sylpheed:34126]  Spellchecking in Windows


I love Sylpheed, and I would really like to see spell-checking support
in the Windows version. I understand that this is an often requested
feature, and there was a thread about this made back in April. 

When browsing the thread, I noticed that there was a link to the
homepage of the Windows version of Aspell. The Windows version of Aspell
is quite old and is no longer being actively developed by the Aspell
developers. I discovered that the makers of LyX, a LaTeX editor, have
made a fork of the Windows version of Aspell. I found a page of the most
recent dictionaries here: 

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6

I do not know if this is enough, because my knowledge of programming is
lacking. Are there any developers who have coded Aspell and can comment
if this is enough? 



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