Dictionary for gd locale is outdated in Ubuntu

[GunChleoc]

The Hunspell dictionary for Scottish Gaelic is seriously outdated in Ubuntu. There are a lot of words that it doesn't recognize but that it will recognize with Windows versions of the same software.

I noticed this in Firefox and LibreOffice.

General information about the gd package can be found on:

http://www.igaidhlig.net/en/an-dearbhair-beag-2/

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

The source package libreoffice-dictionaries includes a gd dictionary for spellchecking, but currently it does not build a binary package with it. It may not be the most current version, but most likely more up to date than the myspell-gd package which is available in the Ubuntu archive.

I will prepare a patch for building hunspell-gd. (I did the same for Swedish last year.)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Second thoughts: It's already on its way via the fix of bug #268953.

In the meantime, the hunspell-gd package can be downloaded from:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/hunspell-gd

So you can install it in advance, and check out if it improves things.