On Fri, 2007-13-04 at 21:57 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > eh? Where exactly. In Tools->Language there isn't any language entries. > Never. What does it show in Tools -> options -> writing aids or format > -> character? (See also below) Thanks Rene. Tools > Options > Writing Aids shows three panes: Available language modules, User-defined dictionaries and Options. Avaialble language modules shows OpenOffice.org Hunspell SpellChecker and OpenOffice.org New Thesaurus. I don't see anywhere mention of Canada or en_US. Format > Character does show and ABC tick next to English (USA) but not English (Canada). If I reformat to English (USA) spellcheck works! thanks! > > myspell-en-us package is installed. > > But a tick does appear at English (USA), doesn't it? > > > Perhaps this is because my locale is en_CA.UTF-8, vs. en_US.UTF-8? > > Yes, myspell-en-us is only registered for en_US, so it doesn't have an > effect for en_CA. Of course, if you say that a an_US dictionary is also > suitable for en_CA we can make myspell-en-us also register for en_CA > (like openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us does for en_GB) Hmm, on the one hand, installing Debian in Canada sets the en_CA locale so spellcheck will appear broken by default. So practically supporting en_CA with myspell-en-us would make sense. On the theoretical hand, official spellings in Canada differ from US: Colour vs. color, etc. However I usually find it easier to just use US spellings when I correspond... Another wrinkle is spellcheck does work by default in Iceweasle, which I think also uses MySpell. I don't know where they're working around my en_CA locale and using myspell-en-us... > Please exit quickstarter (if running) and OOo and add "DICT en CA en_US" > to the manual part of /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst. Then gthe tick > should appear and when you have formatted the text as English (Canada) > it should work. Or you just format the text as English (USA). > > > However I'd still expect the Tools > Language menu to list available > > languages, like en_US. > > see above. I reformatted to English (USA) and am happily spellchecking. Dunno what is the optimal solution? > > 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. > > Yeah.. > > Gre/Regards, > > Ren
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