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Several days ago a colleague popped out of Google Talk window.
“The new OpenOffice.org doesn’t have Indonesian language dictionary, does it?”
“It doesn’t?” I answered, rather smugly. I have installed a copy of OpenOffice.org 3.0 at the office, but hadn’t touched it very much yet. But I was sure the free office suite still had it. Indonesian dictionary was one of the rare things that more popular and much pirated Microsoft Office lacks, but OpenOffice.org has.
“I am at home. I have not access to a machine with the new OpenOffice.org right now. Let me see it tomorrow,” I said.
To my dismay, my colleague was right. The old New Dictionary Wizard is gone. After some fiddling I gave up, the turned to Google to find some information. I found the OpenOffice.org wiki, and began to browse.
It turned out that dictionaries as we know it before in 2.x versions are now integrated into extensions mechanism in the new 3.0 series. Lots of extensions available at OpenOffice.org extensions page, some of them are dictionaries. But there isn’t Indonesian dictionary extension. Bummer.
It seems we have to wait some brave souls to repackage the old Indonesian dictionary into the new extension format. Meanwhile, if you need OpenOffice.org spellchecking capability for Bahasa Indonesia badly, you should stick to the 2.4 version.
Update: there is a dictionary now in Openoffice.org extension service. Check it out.
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With a bit of work you can get the Indonesian dictionary working in OpenOffice 3.0. Get the Indonesian dictionary pack from http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/id_ID-pack.zip. Unzip it and copy the id_ID.aff and the id_ID.dic files to /usr/share/myspell/ (on Fedora 10) or /usr/share/myspell/dict/ (on Ubuntu 9.04) directory.
That may be enough, but I did the following although I’m not sure it is necessary as it looks like the Linguistic.xcu file may get rewriten if new dictionaries are found in the myspell directory.
Then add the this code under HyphenatorList
org.openoffice.lingu.LibHnjHyphenator
and this code under SpellCheckerList
org.openoffice.lingu.MySpellSpellChecker
in the Linguistic.xcu file in ~/.openoffice.org/3/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/
Save the file, close all openoffice applications, reopen openoffice and you should have your Indonesian dictionary. Go to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages and you should be able to pick Indonesia for your language.
Mudah-mudahan ini menolong! Tom
Terima kasih banyak! I will try it later.
I’ve created the extension, but i dont know how to upload it to OpenOffice Extension Repo. in the meanwhile please be patient to wait for the extension package on the OpenOffice web.
i could send you the extension to you. i just need your email.
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I’ve Posted the Extension Here : http://ammarshadiq.web.id/2009/11/21/dictionary-dan-hyphenation-bahasa-indonesia-di-open-office-extension/
feel free to download
regards
Terima kasih untuk infonya. Saya memang mengalami masalah di kamus Indonesia untuk OOo~.~
Sama-sama.
I’ve noticed someone has uploaded an Indonesian spell checker to OOo extension service. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/node/2531 .