Thanks for the report.

I need a bit more information to help diagnose this.

1) Which version of Virtaal are you using? 0.6.1 or 0.7beta4?  If you are using 0.6.1 would you mind installing 0.7 beta4 from the following repo?

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dwayne/translate-tools/fedora-translate-tools.repo

Virtaal will be releasing a 0.7 version soon so I'd like to make sure that this is fixed in that version.


2) When you say "I have to change it every time" do you mean change it in the language switcher the one that says 'English -> Portuguese' or in spell checers popoup menu where you can select an entry from the 'Languages' menu entry?


3) Could you maybe provide a small snippet of pt_PT text that is spelled correctly but mispelled in pt_BR.  Without being able to understand either this would allow us to test when the checker is in the correct configuration.


Thanks again for reporting this and hopefully with your help we can fix it.

Hi,

Sorry for the little detail in the bug report, it was a late night bug :).

2- I have to change the language in the pop-up menu from pt_BR to pt_PT. The language pair is correct in the language switcher: English -> Portuguese. (there is also the option for English -> Portuguese (Brasil).

3- pt_PT -> O tempo está muito húmido para fazer algo activo.
pt_BR -> O tempo está muito úmido para fazer algo ativo.
Note the words "húmido/úmido" and "activo/ativo".

1- I'm using virtaal 0.6.1. I've tested 0.7 from the above and the bug is more serious. I'll explain. With 0.7 the language switcher is set to the correct language pair once more- English -> Portuguese - but pt_PT spelled words are marked as incorrect, so the used dictionary is the pt_BR. The problem is that there is no switcher from pt_BR to pt_PT in the pop up menu as in 0.6.1. This makes virtaal 0.7 unusable to translate to pt_PT as you can imagine...

Note very relevant right now, but just as a side note, there is an undergoing process of unifying the spelling of pt_PT and pt_BR [1]. The new spelling is starting to be used now but I think only in 2016 it will be mandatory to write in the new spelling. That I know of, there is no open-source spell checker for it yet. But I'm sure there will be some in the next few years.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Language_Orthographic_Agreement_of_1990

Please let me know if I can provide any further info.

Thanks!

I've reported this upstream at http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1863

Thanks for the feedback.  We think the problem is happening because of the following:

1) On Fedora there is no pt spell checker but a pt_PT and pt_BR one
2) Our spellchecker provider looks like it tries to find a pt_* checker when no pt is provided
3) It seems to take the first one pt_BR

We'll do some experiments but will probably hardode pt to pt_PT.

I wonder how people will represent the language code once the spellings are unified, do you have any idea?  Not a priority as this is 5 years away.

Thank you for working on this. Hope it can get fixed.

As for the new language code, I am not aware of how it will be represented. There are other Portuguese speaking country's (mostly in Africa) that as not ratified the agreement and so there are still different spellings... Anyway, it's really not a priority now.

Thanks again.

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> Thank you for working on this. Hope it can get fixed.

Upstream is fixed see http://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/translate/src/trunk/virtaal/virtaal/plugins/spellchecker.py?r1=17260&r2=17259&pathrev=17260

I will try to backport this to Fedora.

virtaal-0.6.1-7.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virtaal-0.6.1-7.fc14

That was fast! Thank you!

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> That was fast! Thank you!

Pleasure, please test.  I tested the path on 0.7 and it worked, but 0.6.1 is very different when it comes to spelling.

virtaal-0.6.1-7.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update virtaal'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virtaal-0.6.1-7.fc14

virtaal-0.6.1-7.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virtaal-0.6.1-7.el6

virtaal-0.6.1-7.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

virtaal-0.6.1-7.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.