Add spellchecking

[sigod]

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[sandsmark]

I guess I can pimp my own solution here: http://inqlude.org/libraries/sonnet.html

[shirishag75]

whatever solution, a solution is needed.

[carrerasrodrigo]

yes, this is a very important feature to have!

[ByteShare]

I created a new request for this, sorry. I created #237.

[Kraigo]

Need Spell Checker for Russian language.

[Innomen]

Still wanted. (English.) Notepad++ has a spell check plugin, perhaps someone could adapt that?

[zumoshi]

would be nice to have.

[HallEffect]

It will be nice feature!

[aquada]

Pitching in here to plead for this to get implemented. My smelling needs checking :)

[chaosdrop]

TinySpell is a workable solution for people who really need spellchecking right now.
Just figured I'd post it here since it's what I am doing in the mean time.

[chaosdrop]

In most open source projects it's all about integrating Enchant (since it works on OSX, Windows, Linux and can cover a huge number of languages) unless they want to do some kind of special in-house spell-checker. Which I assume most be what they are looking into having taken this long, normally Enchant is pretty fast and easy to get worked into a project.

The main thing is it would be nice if they would actually talk to us. Thus far the only thing I'm disliking about Telegram is that the developers don't seem to want to inform the community about anything in the works. Channels are a good example; they are cool and could be very awesome with a few more additional features, one of the biggest things I'd like to see is a self-hosted web-view so that none-members could view channels without needing to install any telegram client, or you could embed the channel in a website as a replacement for RSS. However there's no idea as to what to really expect from channels since the team behind telegram doesn't share any insight on the future of the project.

[comzeradd]

On Linux the best solution would be to utilize hunspell for this.

[jacobmischka]

So many people shaming the devs and so zero people submitting pull requests.

[Innomen]

@jacobmischka
You know I hear whtieknight shield polish is still on sale from Cyber Monday in a few places. >.>

[auchri]

@jacobmischka +1

[vitordelucca]

Please, would be good if the Windows version used the API (8+) https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh869852(v=vs.85).aspx cause then it supports the touch keyboard for tablets too.

[kmare]

@Placid7 you're wrong actually. The protocol is open source, all the apps acting as clients are open source etc (so they're not proprietary, and one of the many reasons I chose telegram in the first place). Implementing a spell checker has nothing to do with proprietary or security. In fact, it shouldn't even be hard to add that feature. I would do it myself if I had the time.

[ghost]

Then I'm going to give a +1 @jacobmischka. My mind is blown that so many people are making this request and virtually no pull requests.

If it is open source and the protocol is available why isn't there a plugin being worked out by the users (which is what I cam here looking for)? I'm new to programming and don't have the skill to develope this from scratch and was actually looking for someone who was already working on this so I could take a wack at it.

[zignd]

Maybe we should start a Kickstarter campaign in order to get some money to hire a C++ dev to implement this issue.

[jacobmischka]

Oh, I just read through CONTRIBUTING.md, if someone implemented this would it even be merged? @auchri

[stek29]

I'm sure that it should use system API's on OSX and Windows, and on Linux too, if any.
Or a Qt plugin, I think there are some spellchecking plugins.
Don't invent a bicycle.

[zaps166]

Telegram Desktop with Hunspell (patch + Arch Linux package).

[donqq]

I would like it too. without spelling checking the telegram app is useless to me, as I am not a native english speaker. so it's important for me to know whether what I am typing is correct or wrong.

[dianjuar]

@auchri I tried once. But in that time has terrible painful set up the development environment, the doc has based on debian and I have Arch Linux.
Maybe create a docker will be the best practice.

[Sbzz]

Telegram Desktop with Hunspell (patch + Arch Linux package). - And how do you install this on say an Ubuntu machine? Thanks.

[stek29]

@Sbzz You can install Arch on it :>

[Sbzz]

@stek29 This is needed on an Ubuntu machine. Any solution?

[stek29]

@Sbzz You'd have to build it on your own.

[Sbzz]

@stek29 In order words, no public solution as yet.

[zaps166]

@Sbzz If you have new glibc you can try to copy all missing/obsolete dependencies from Arch Linux to unpacked Telegram directory and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

[akashnimare]

I have built an unofficial telegram desktop client using electron and it supports spellchecker as well.

Check it out -

https://github.com/akashnimare/telectron

[kirsan31]

#3232

[stek29]

@akashnimare but can't I just use any browser which has exact same spell checking, but a lot more features (like receiving notifications when tab with webogram is closed -- I can't see your app sending notifications when it's closed).

[AdKiller]

Please make it happen. It shouldn't be that hard considering there are ready-made spell checking solutions out there...

[donqq]

want for windows if it's possible. thanks.

[Mte90]

any updates on that? Mozilla volunteers we use telegram a lot and will be helpful to avoid so many typos!

[lordkage]

@Mte90 There have been several people that have created PRs, asked for clarifications, and volunteered for to assist. And none of it has gotten a response from the project owner. Has Mozilla created created a fork with a working release for all platforms?

[stek29]

@lordkage I've seen just one PR, and that PR got a lot of attention and help from John.

[lordkage]

That is awesome news!
Does that mean we are close to having resolution?

[AdKiller]

so they just implemented the extremely important "Autocompletion for emoji" and still no spell checker... sad

[Innomen]

/type critical thing about oligarch owned insecure closed source server chat app...

"auchri deleted a comment from" in 3... 2... 1...

Guys, seriously, never gonna happen. I'm unsubscribing now, you should do the same and try to migrate to a fully open source solution.

[john-preston]

@Innomen Please stop posting offtopic here, this issue has nothing to do with server side source code, project ownership etc.

This is completely client-side issue and it can be done by the community with source of this app being open. So it will indeed be required to delete your offtopic comments :(

@auchri helps with issue management in his free time, he has no interest in this apart from the improvement of the application. The deleted comments were not critical, they just were meaningless, because they could be easier done by reactions.

[23rd]

It's not over yet. The spellchecker for Linux and Windows 7 is in the WIP state.