Bug 83561

Jay: I'll let you edit the title of the bugtracker since something's lacking :) 

Andras: I thought about doing about the same as this:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a4f411ba62d4fd7fd4a61d1c9d326488d5e84ff5
but in the case of English, I'd rename en-US/acor_en-US to en/acor_en since English US would be the default.
More generally, should we follow a general rule that would be one "generic variant" for each language?
Eg: ja-JP/acor_ja-JP.dat would be renamed to ja/acor_ja
(Still, there would be some cases to decide like:
- acor_zh-CN
- acor_zh-TW 
)

Any idea?

(In reply to comment #1)
> Jay: I'll let you edit the title of the bugtracker since something's lacking
> :) 

:D

> Andras: I thought about doing about the same as this:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/
> ?id=a4f411ba62d4fd7fd4a61d1c9d326488d5e84ff5
> but in the case of English, I'd rename en-US/acor_en-US to en/acor_en since
> English US would be the default.

Please dont forget dictionaries files as well, as that was the main reason of the bug. :)

/share/extensions/dict-en/

Argh! Again I confused autocorrect and dictionaries :-(
Forget my last comments then :-(

(In reply to comment #1)
> Jay: I'll let you edit the title of the bugtracker since something's lacking
> :) 
> 
> Andras: I thought about doing about the same as this:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/
> ?id=a4f411ba62d4fd7fd4a61d1c9d326488d5e84ff5
> but in the case of English, I'd rename en-US/acor_en-US to en/acor_en since
> English US would be the default.

currently default autocorrect english datasets include:
en-AU (Australia)
en-US (United States)
en-GB (Great Britain)
en-ZA (South Africa)

other English variants that do not have a specific autocorrect set are:

Belize, 
Canada, 
Caribbean, 
Ghana, 
India,
Ireland, 
Jamaica, 
Malawi, 
Namibia, 
New Zealand, 
Philippines, 
Trinidad, 
Zimbabwe

as far as I know, most of those variants belong to Commonwealth countries so they derive from English GB root languages rather than English US.

so my suggestion would be to clone the "acor_en-GB.dat" file and rename it to "acor_en.dat" and use that generic .dat file to pupulate the other languages.

in other words we should have:
en-AU (Australia)
en-US (United States)
en-GB (Great Britain)
en-ZA (South Africa)
en    (Generic clone of en-GB)

then if in second phase we found that some countries would have a better match with en-US, we could clone this as well and rename it to the proper locale.

for example if you think English (Canada) is more similar to en-US rather than en-UK we should clone en-US and rename it as en-CA