What is the Encoding of User-Defined Dictionaries?

[skipidar]

Hello, I would like to convert lists of words into user-defined dictionaries for spell-checking,
but I can't figure out the encoding of the .dic files in Open Office.

Do someone know the used encoding?

[Hagar Delest]

I remember that one: Sharing dictionary files.

[franx]

Hi,
there's also a macro which can execute that task →

OOo Dictionary Importer/Exporter
Import/Export Text File into/from OOo Dictionary
Author: Russ Phillips
Latest release: ImportExportDictionary1-1.zip Version 1.1 (June 21, 2004)

This macro has a GUI that makes it simple to import words from a text
file into an OOo dictionary, or to export an OOo dictionary to a text
file for easier editing.

(Please set Macro Security to Medium before starting the macro
Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Security > Macro security > Macro Security ... > [X] Medium)

[skipidar]

Hello all,

thanks franx, this makro comes close to that, what i would like to have.

I found out, that user-defined dictionaries are compiled binary files. It' format is WBSWG6 - an specific Open Office thing.
The possibility of compiling own user-defined dictionaries seem no to exist yet,
some time ago there was an article (http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/51675), which included a "howto" about editing user-defined dictionaries manually but this didn't work for me on Windows, with Open Office 3.1.0

What I want, is editing user-defined dictionaries programmatically.

Its possible to convert OO Dic to any String, by opening it with UTF-8 encoding, and deleting all special characters.
I didn't find the possibility to turn a String to a user-defined dictionary yet. For that i need the possibility of compiling WBSWG6 Files.

I will try to contact the developers, and post everything i will find out.