Bug#419095: myspell-en-us installed, no dictionaries available

[Jack Bates <ms419@freezone.co.uk>]

Package: openoffice.org
Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7
Severity: normal

I'm unable to spellcheck documents in OpenOffice, presumably because no
dictionaries appear in the Tools > Language menu. However the
myspell-en-us package is installed.

Perhaps this is because my locale is en_CA.UTF-8, vs. en_US.UTF-8?
However I'd still expect the Tools > Language menu to list available
languages, like en_US.

As a wishlist item, when I choose Tools > Spellcheck, a widget pops up
claiming the spellcheck is complete, though it wasn't actually
performed. It would be nice if this widget reported a more informative
error, like no dictionaries available.

Thanks for maintaining OpenOffice! Jack

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii  openoffice.org-base       2.0.4.dfsg.2-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - data
ii  openoffice.org-calc       2.0.4.dfsg.2-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - spre
ii  openoffice.org-core       2.0.4.dfsg.2-7 OpenOffice.org office suite archit
ii  openoffice.org-draw       2.0.4.dfsg.2-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - draw
ii  openoffice.org-impress    2.0.4.dfsg.2-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - pres
ii  openoffice.org-java-commo 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7 OpenOffice.org office suite Java s
ii  openoffice.org-math       2.0.4.dfsg.2-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - equa
ii  openoffice.org-writer     2.0.4.dfsg.2-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - word

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