Bug#422937: Spell checking not working
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tag 422937 + moreinfo
tag 422937 + unreproducible
thanks
Hi,
Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> You may think that it's the trivial issue of not having the
> proper language set in the paragraph style. Well, it's not.
> This is what I do in Writer :
> o create a new Text document.
> o type random characters
> o select the text
> o context menu -> Characters
> o Language is set to "English USA"
> o Tools->Spellcheck
> o "The spellcheck is complete".
> o Text it not corrected.
Hmm.
> Note that after noticing the problem, the first thing I did
> was to delete the ~/.office* directories. This did not help.
Because they don't exist? :)
> These are random observations leading me to believe that
> this is not an usual problem.
> In the Character->Language selection pulldown, I remember that
> all languages with a dictionaty installed had a ABC tickmark icon in front
> of them. On my install, none of them has that.
> The title of the spellcheck windows has the following title :
> "Spellcheck: ()"
> The Wizards->Install new dictionaries does not do anything at all.
> In Tools->Options->LanguageSettings->WritingAids, the list of
> "Available language module" is empty.
> Tools->Language->Thesaurus is grayed out.
> Tools->Language->Hyphenation returned an error the first time
> I ran it that it could not find US/GB stuff. Later, it just does nothing.
Yes, really weird.
> # ls /usr/lib/openoffice/share/wordbook
> en-GB/ en-US/ fr/ it/
> # ll /usr/lib/openoffice/share/wordbook/en-US/
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-20 13:20 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-05-08 14:02 ../
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 2007-03-22 03:38 Debian.dic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 786 2007-03-22 03:38 soffice.dic
wrong, unrelevant dir. This one here is important, though:
$ dpkg -L openoffice.org-common | grep dict
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict
/usr/share/myspell/dicts
/usr/share/myspell/dicts/DicOOo.sxw
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
/usr/share/myspell/dicts/dictionary.lst
$ ls -l /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2007-04-10 09:23 /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo -> ../../../../share/myspell/dicts
Do you have that? (If not, i've no idea why it got lost as it *is* in
the package)
> # ls /usr/share/myspell/dicts/
> DicOOo.sxw en_GB.dic en_US.dic it_IT.aff th_en_US_v2.dat
> dictionary.lst@ en-GB.dic@ en-US.dic@ it-IT.aff@ th_en_US_v2.idx
> en_GB.aff en_US.aff fr.aff it_IT.dic th_it_IT_v2.dat
> en-GB.aff@ en-US.aff@ fr.dic it-IT.dic@ th_it_IT_v2.idx
OK.
> # cat /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst
> [...]
> ## !!! BEGIN AUTOMATIC SECTION -- DO NOT CHANGE !!!
> ## !!! ADD YOUR ADDITIONAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS SECTION !!!
> DICT en GB en_GB
> DICT en US en_US
> DICT fr FR fr
> DICT fr BE fr
> DICT fr CA fr
> DICT it IT it_IT
> THES en US th_en_US_v2
> THES en GB th_en_US_v2
> THES it IT th_it_IT_v2
> ## !!! END AUTOMATIC SECTION -- DO NOT CHANGE !!!
OK
> # dpkg -l \*openoffice\* | grep '^ii'
> ii openoffice.org 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org Office suite version 2.0
> ii openoffice.org-base 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org office suite - database
> ii openoffice.org-calc 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org office suite - spreadsheet
> ii openoffice.org-common 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org office suite architecture ind
> ii openoffice.org-core 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org office suite architecture dep
> ii openoffice.org-draw 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org office suite - drawing
> ii openoffice.org-gcj 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.orgs Java libraries (native for u
> ii openoffice.org-help-en-us 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 English_american help for OpenOffice.org
> ii openoffice.org-impress 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org office suite - presentation
> ii openoffice.org-java-common 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org office suite Java support arc
> ii openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 English_british language package for OpenOff
> ii openoffice.org-l10n-fr 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 French language package for OpenOffice.org
> ii openoffice.org-l10n-it 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 Italian language package for OpenOffice.org
> ii openoffice.org-math 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org office suite - equation edito
> ii openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us 2.0.4~rc1-3 English Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org
> ii openoffice.org-thesaurus-it 0+20050726 Italian Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org 2
> ii openoffice.org-writer 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5etch1 OpenOffice.org office suite - word processor
OK
> # dpkg -l \*spell\* | grep '^ii'
[ i-/aspell stuff stripped off ...]
> ii libmyspell3c2 3.1-18 MySpell spellchecking library
> ii myspell-en-gb 2.0.4~rc1-3 English_british dictionary for myspell
> ii myspell-en-us 2.0.4~rc1-3 English_american dictionary for myspell
> ii myspell-fr-gut 1.0-18 The French dictionary for myspell (GUTenberg
> ii myspell-it 2.0.4~rc1-3 Italian dictionary for myspell
[...]
OK.
> # dpkg -l \*americ\* | grep '^ii'
> ii iamerican 3.1.20.0-4.3 An American English dictionary for ispell
> ii wamerican 6-2 American English dictionary words for /usr/s
> # dpkg -l \*brit\* | grep '^ii'
> ii ibritish 3.1.20.0-4.3 A British English dictionary for ispell
> ii wbritish 6-2 British English dictionary words for /usr/sh
Unrelated to OOo.
Regards,
Rene
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