Bug#340373: spellcheck should allow use of fallback language
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 2.0.0-2
Severity: normal
Hi, I have my documents set by default to English (Australian). What else
would I use, I'm Australian, right? Apart from spelling, there are
questions of date, decimal, money formatting and cultural pride. So
selecting English (UK) is not a satisfactory workaround.
As you are aware, there is no en_AU dictionary. In the Englishes, there is
only en_GB and en_US. So I've installed the British dictionary, and I'm
quite happy to use it as a "next best" for spellchecking my English
(Australian) OOo documents.
The only problem is, I can't (unless there's some secret option hidden
somewhere). OOo does not let me specify which dictionary I want to use for
spellchecking. It just says "this document is Australian, there is no en_AU
dictionary, so too bad". That is, when I click F7 for spellchecking, the
box comes up, but just says "The spellcheck is complete" and exits
immediately without letting me get to the underlying spelling dialog box
where I might have otherwise been able to select a different dictionary. Any
spelling errors are completely ignored.
I've defined the default document language in Options: Language
Settings->Languages to English (Australian). Likewise, I've selected the
dictionary in Language Settings->Writing Aids->Myspell Spellchecker (Edit)
to English (UK). But this spellcheck dictionary setting is being ignored.
It's not just English (Australian). What if I want to write a multicultural
document, with French and German sections, say. How am I supposed to
spellcheck them as well when the language used for spellchecking is so
tightly bound to the document default language?
Can you please be so kind as to decouple the tight binding between document
language and spellcheck dictionary?
Thank you,
Drew Parsons
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