How to install manually dictionaries

[GuyM-31]

Hello,

There is a "proxy" option but I don't know how to set to up my proxy. So I can't access through NP++ to other language dictionaries. The setting up options gives the address of several servers where I can find all the dictionaries and I can download the files I need.

I can get also the Mozilla Firefox dictionaries files.

Is there any "how to" which describe how to install manually a dictionary ?

Thank for your answer. GM

[Predelnik]

Most likely it will be sufficient to place .aff and .dic files with the same name to %appdata%\Notepad++\plugins\config\Hunspell or into %NOTEPAD++_DIR%\plugins\config\Hunspell. And you should restart Notepad++ after that.

Maybe I should add it to manual, there is also a setting about placement of this stuff in settings.

Also about proxy, it may be sufficient to set up proxy in Internet Explorer.

[GuyM-31]

Thank you, it's what I did, it's to work but I was in trouble : -there a 'dictionary.lst' file and I did know how to complete this file (it seems you don't use it) -all the dictionaries I downloaded are rightly named (the language name and some details are displayed) in the menu "Change current language" -I copy a dictionary from the Firefox directories on my computer, this dictionary is more recent and it works but the name displayed is the file name. I don't know how to change its displayed name.

About the proxy, it's not a proxy but a configuration file and Internet Explorer is setting up.

[Predelnik]

Yeah .lst is something for OpenOffice, it's unneeded.

Ok. About displayed name, I just use custom names for predefined set of dictionaries (which could be found on FTPs), for other dictionaries I guess it's easier to rename the file itself.

[GuyM-31]

So hyphenation dictionaries and thesaurus files are also unneeded ? File names are like this : language_country, this could help. It seem that OpenOffice linguistic package format have changed there no more .aff and .dic files in OpenOffice files tree, theses files are in .oxt files, perhaps in a next major version ?

[Predelnik]

Yeah these files are not needed for spell checking I think. OpenOffice still uses Hunspell if I remember correctly but repacks dictionaries in their own format so it's hard to use them in other programs.

[GuyM-31]

If you use NP++ to edit LateX files, hyphenation dictionaries and thesaurus files can be usefull. The format of the .oxt file is simple an documented. When you download these files from openoffice ou libreoffice you get the up to date dictionaries. the .oxt are compressed files, the dictionaries contained in this file are described in the dictionaries.xcu XML file which give the path to the .dic and .aff file within the .oxt file. The name of the dictionaries are contain in the description.xml file.

[crozone]

OK, this issue is pretty old but I also had some trouble getting dictionaries to download, since the built in downloader wants to use FTP, and the required ports were blocked at my work.

My full solution:

1. Find the correct dictionary extension file (.oxt) For example, English is here.

2. Rename the .oxt file to .zip

3. Open the zip file and copy en_US.aff and en_US.dic (and whatever other language variants, like en_AU.aff and en_AU.dic) into %appdata%\Notepad++\plugins\config\Hunspell, or whatever directory is listed under Plugins -> DSpellCheck -> Settings -> Hunspell Settings -> Hunspell Dictionaries Path

4. Restart Notepad++. The dictionaries will appear under Plugins -> DSpellCheck -> Change Current Language.

[UghtC]

I did what @crozone succinctly put to great success.

Got my dictionary from here: http://ftp.nluug.nl/office/openoffice/contrib/dictionaries/

Just extract the .aff and .dic files and place in %appdata%\Notepad++\plugins\config\Hunspell folder - restart Notepad++ and change dictionary language afterwards.