aspell installation for MacOS #498
Description
While running the sample MacOS installation script for the aspell dictionaries, I hit this:
aspell-pt-0.50-2/portugu�s.alias: Can't create 'aspell-pt-0.50-2/portugu�s.alias'
This looks related to this bug, which was apparently fixed in aspell 0.51.1-5. However, I can't verify that that works, because aspell for language pt is only available in versions 0.50-1 and 0.50-2. I think this is because pt hasn't been updated since 2003, and seems to have been replaced by separate pt_PT and pt_BR dictionaries.
I was able to install Portuguese that way, but it doesn't seem like revscoring is picking it up. Looking at revscoring/languages/portuguese.py, it seems like it's trying to use dictionaries from myspell rather than aspell. I'm not too familiar with the spell-checking software ecosystem, so I think I could benefit from some advice on which way to go. Should I be trying to install Portuguese for aspell, or should I try to use myspell or hunspell? And where should I get the dictionaries from? I did track down the myspell-pt-pt package for xenial... should I maybe just install the dictionary files directly from the Ubuntu package? That seems a little funky so I wanted to stop and ask for advice in case I'm making the problem overly complicated 😂