Re: spell checking broken in all gnome apps (fixed)
It wasn't a gnome problem. My /etc/aspell.conf file had lang set to
british rather than en_GB (or rather it shouldn't have been set at
all).
Don't know how this happened.
I thought I'd post to the list in case anyone else has the same problem.
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 18:43 +0100, rob wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running sid and did an upgrade last week (it had probably been about
> a month since my last upgrade), since then spellchecking hasn't worked
> in any gnome app (my most recent upgrade was about an hour ago).
>
> In abiword the spellcheck button is grayed out, and evolution just tells
> me that no misspelled words were found.
>
> I've checked that aspell is installed and the word list for my locale
> (en_GB). I've tried changeing the local to the utf-8 version and C, but
> it makes no difference.
>
> There are no errors anywhere obvious or when the apps are started from
> the console.
>
> Any one have any idea what the problem might be and what to try next?
>
> thanks
> --
>
> rob
>
>
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rob
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