Changes between Version 64 and Version 65 of Installing Pidgin

Timestamp:

Sep 25, 2011, 5:26:48 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

datallah

Comment:

Update Windows manual spellcheck installation instructions so they work with the oo.o extensions.

Installing Pidgin

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 Yes, if the installer isn't able to successfully download and install the dictionaries, you can do so manually.
 
-Versions 2.7.0 and newer use the dictionaries available from the [http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/ openoffice download site].
-You need to download the appropriate language zip file(s) (files are in the form of two-character language code followed by a two-character country code - United States English  is `en_US.zip`).
-Once you have downloaded the dictionary zip file, you need to extract it to `<Pidgin Installation Directory>\spellcheck\share\enchant\myspell\` (create the directories if they don't exist already). If Pidgin is running, it needs to be restarted for new dictionaries to be used.
+Versions 2.7.0 and newer use the dictionaries available from the [http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/dictionaries openoffice extension download site].
+You need to download the appropriate language extension file(s) (files are openoffice extensions `*.oxt`, which are just zip files that contain additional data).
+Once you have downloaded a dictionary extension file, you can rename it so it has a `.zip` extension and then extract it to `<Pidgin Installation Directory>\spellcheck\share\enchant\myspell\` (create the directories if they don't exist already). If Pidgin is running, it needs to be restarted for new dictionaries to be used.
 
 Versions older than 2.7.0 use Aspell; you can download both the Aspell core and a dictionary from [http://aspell.net/win32 the win32 Aspell website].