I was noticing the other day that the en-US dictionary files get installed into components\myspell. This seems wrong to me. Also, on startup, you can see the component manager try to open en-US.aff and en-US.dic as components. Axel and I were thinking about moving the dictionaries into a new application level directory called "dictionaries" which would contain all of the default .aff and .dic files being shipped with the product. We wanted to hear what benjamin / brett think of doing this too. We also have even more adventurous plans to support dictionaries as install.rdf based extensions in the profile directory so language pack extensions could have dictionaries inside of them. More on that later.

nominating so I don't forget about this bug in case we decide to do it.

Related to bug 327160 and bug 310936 I guess.

Boy, are you out of the loop; we've been wanting to do this for years ;-) The question that I never figured out was whether myspell (or hunspell) could load dictionaries from a variety of locations. If so, it's trivial to set up a directoryservice key to provide a list of locations to search and have every extension/dictionaries directory searchable. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216382 *** *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216382 ***

I think a better location would be good. I have only the slightest grasp on how dictionary loading works now, so I don't have much of an opinion on how this should work.