Bug#340373: spellchecking with language variations
The reported problem still exists but has a very simple workaround. Edit
the /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst file and add some mappings to a
supported language. Alternatively, create symlinks to the dictionary you
want to use.
I used the first option, so my file looks like
## !!! BEGIN AUTOMATIC SECTION -- DO NOT CHANGE !!!
## !!! ADD YOUR ADDITIONAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS SECTION !!!
DICT en GB en_GB
DICT en US en_US
THES en US th_en_US_v2
THES en GB th_en_US_v2
## !!! END AUTOMATIC SECTION -- DO NOT CHANGE !!!
DICT en CA en_GB
THES en CA th_en_US_v2
I'm not sure where you keep the various files, but setting symlinks to
en_GB for most of the variant forms will probably save a lot of people a
lot of headaches. Canadian (and Australian - and most other variants of)
English uses British spellings so you don't need separate dictionaries,
just a method of redirecting the local variant to the parent language.
BTW: the problem also exists in Ubuntu, so fixing it will really help a
lot of people!
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