sw->tl: looks like one for you

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TL->ms2:
Yes it uses osl_getThreadTextEncoding() but only for the older versions of
dictionaries.
For the latest two it uses UTF-8 only. This should be is the case since
StarOffice 7 most probably already since StarOffice 6.
Thus unless you have a very old dictionary there should be no problem like this.

I also tried to reproduce your problem by creating a new dictionary with
"äußern" in Win XP and then used it with iso8859-1 and iso8859-15 on Solaris
without any problems.

Can you give more information?
Also if you have that very dictionary you use, please attach it to this issue.
Thanks!

BTW: I was using office versions 680 m173 and 680 m168. 

TL->ms2: Can you check again with a current version?

tl:
I've tried the basic code today on OO.o 2.0.2-de Release (680m5, build 8011 or
9011 ;):

Running on Win98se it's still there, the converion from utf8 fails. The
dictionary I've use i the one from OO.o2.

The history of this installation should be: tried 2.0 RC1 in parallel to 1.1.5,
put 2.0.2 release over it. So I'm not absolutely sure if the dictionary is old
or new. It 's "soffice.dic" and I'll attach it later.

Testing a newer version will take some time...

Created attachment 37515 [details]
the dictionary list in question

The problem actually is that the entries in the dictionary are already converted
to UTF-8 while the verrsion string of the dictionary says ("WBSWG2") which means
it states to be a thread encoded positive dictionary (as it was still used in SO
5.x).
Since SO6 that version string should have been "WBSWG6" which indicates an UTF-8
encoded dictionary and thus does not used thread encoding anymore when reading
or writing the dictionary.

The problem could probably solved by just editing that version string in an
(hex)editor.
But to be sure I wrote a conversion macro that reads the entries and writes new
dictionaries. Be sure to call that macro from an environment with UTF-8 encoding!
And just in case make backups from the original dictionaries before.

Please change the "aNewDicDirURL" in the macro to point to a suitable
output directory.
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Sub Main

xDicList = createUnoService("com.sun.star.linguistic2.DictionaryList")
aDics = xDicList.getDictionaries()
nDics = ubound( aDics ) + 1

aNewDicDirURL = "file:///c:/NewDics"

for i = 0 to nDics - 1
	xDic = aDics(i)
	aDicName = xDic.getName()
	if aDicName <> "IgnoreAllList" then
		aDicLocale = xDic.getLocale()
		eDicType = xDic.getDictionaryType
		aEntries = xDic.getEntries()
		nEntries = xDic.getCount()
		
		aURL = aNewDicDirURL + "/" + aDicName
		xNewDic = xDicList.createDictionary( aDicName, aDicLocale, eDicType, aURL )
		for k = 0 to nEntries - 1
			aEntry = aEntries(k)
			xEntry = xDic.getEntry( aEntry.getDictionaryWord() )
			xNewDic.addEntry( xEntry )
		next k
		xNewDic.storeToURL( aURL, DimArray() )   
	endif
next i

End Sub

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When the macro has successfully run and the you have exited the running Office
you just need to copy the new converted dictionary to their respective locations
(either user/wordbook or the respective subdirectory in share/wordbook).
After that things should be fine with all locale settings.

Tl->Ms2: Please check. What still makes me wonder is that the dictionary
versions that we used were also "WBSWG2" but we did not encounter the problem...

TL->VA: What you need to now is to convert all the dictionaries named "sun.dic",
"soffice.dic" and the like from the project extras_full as described above and
have those new versions checked in.
Please take over. Thanks!

set target from 2.x to 3.x according to
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Target_3x

VA: Issue will be fixed in connection with Issue 84688.

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TL->VA: you may use the macro  below to see all entries of a specific dictionary.

Sub Main

dls = createUnoService("com.sun.star.linguistic2.DictionaryList")
dic = dls.getDictionaryByName("soffice_de.dic")

entries = dic.getEntries()
n = ubound(entries)
msgbox n
aText = ""
for i = 0 to n 
    aText = aText + entries(i).getDictionaryWord() + " "
next i
msgbox aText

End Sub

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VA->SBA: Please verify.

Verified in CWS extras240

Closing issue.
Note: Dictionaries in OOo 3.0 will work as extensions only (See 81365 "Allow for
dictionaries to be provided as extensions")