Multilingual support in libenchant_voikko is missing

[SjurNM]

libenchant_voikko has one hardcoded language (Finnish, fi_FI). libenchant_voikko depends on libvoikko, which over the last couple of years have been extended to support multiple languages and multiple backends, mainly through the libhfstospell backend. A number of languages using this backend are available from divvun.no, divvun.org, giellatekno.uit.no and apertium.org, and it would be very desirable to make these languages available also via enchant, to broaden the language coverage of spell checking services in Ubuntu.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

You may want to forward the issue to Enchant developer now that it's being actively developed again:

https://github.com/AbiWord/enchant/releases

Note that it says 2.0.0 changed voikko plugin to use the new API, I'm not sure if that means this could be fixed in newer upstream version.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

This is now fixed in Ubuntu 20.04 (focal fossa). Installing voikko-fi and giella-sme gives one access to use Voikko with multiple languages.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

(also install libenchant-2-voikko)