Chris Halls wrote:
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:09, Helen Faulkner wrote:Is the text language really set to English (UK) (right click in text->Character->Language)? Is there a tick mark next to English (UK) in the list of available languages?Yes, it's set to English(UK).OK, but please answer both questions. Is there a tick mark?
Sorry - I thought you meant the same thing both times.The answer is yes to both questions. Yes the language was set to ENglish (UK) the time I looked, and also in the options default setting. And yes, there is a tick mark next to that language in the list (it's the only one with a tick mark in that list). But I have noticed the program is acting more strangely than I initally thought. Maybe the problem is to do with how the program remembers the user options.
The only dictionary I have installed is the English (UK) one. openoffice.org seems to vary between having it's language set as English (UK), English (US) and English (Australia). It seems to behave differently each time, and I now realise that it's behaving differently with different files, or at least at different times.
Here's an example run: 1 open test.doc (attached) with openoffice.org writer.2 right-click in text field -> character. Language setting is English(Australia) 3 tools -> spellcheck -> check. Incorrect behaviour where it says spellcheck is complete without having noticably done anything, or identified wrongly spelled word, or told me that I don't have the right dictionary
4 right-click in text field -> character. Change language setting to English (UK).
5 tools -> spellcheck -> check. Same incorrect behaviour. 6 check language setting again - still on English (UK).7 Check language setting again (yes, paranoid, because it keeps playing games). Language setting has changed back to Australia for no apparent reason. Spellcheck doesn't work.
8 Change language setting to English (UK). Spellcheck doesn't work.9 Check language setting, gone back to English (Australia). Change back to UK, check a few seconds later, still on UK.
10 Add a new wrongly spelled, random word into the document.11 Spellcheck works and identifies new wrong word, but doesn't notice old wrong word.
12 Just for fun I check the default language setting from the options dialog. That was English (UK) last time I looked. Now it is German. I definitely didn't change it to German. No idea how that happened.
So I'm observing the following behaviours:1) The language setting doesn't stay set to what you change it to, necessarily. 2) When an unavailable language is set, there usually isn't a message saying that dictionary isn't there (I did see such a message a couple of times, but not mostly) 3) When an available language is set, the spellcheck sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work at all. When it does work, it doesn't identify all incorrect words (maybe it previously added them to it's user-defined list of words, and now thinks they are correct words). 4) The default language setting in the options dialog sometimes changes without apparent cause.
None of the above things are absolutely consistent.I'll attach the file I was using in the above, but I won't be suprised if you can't reproduce this behaviour, seeing as it's acting so erratically on me. The weird behaviour isn't confined to .doc files - I've seen similar with .sxc and .txt files.
Please let me know if I can help further. Thanks, Helen.
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