Bug#485500: doesn't set default dictionary

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

severity 485500 wishlist
thanks

Hi,

Per Olofsson wrote:
> Executing hunspell yields:
> 
> $ hunspell
> Can't open affix or dictionary files.
> 
> But it works given a dictionary:
> 
> $ hunspell -d en_US
> Hunspell 1.2.2
> 
> I think hunspell should have its default dictionary set via maintainer
> scripts, as is done for ispell. Maybe with a debconf prompt, too.

Currently, it looks at your locale for looking for the default dict...

> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

... so it tries to get the en_GB dict here.

Of course, what you wish is a valid *wish*, no "normal" bug. And it's
too late for lenny anyway.

Regards,

Rene