Bug#485500: hunspell: doesn't consider locale setting

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Stefan Zechner wrote:
> you claimed that hunspell is taking the default dictionary from the locale
> settings.

Yes. It does.
(DICTIONARY takes precendence, though, see below)

> Doesn't seem to be true for my system:
> 
> [~] hunspell 
> Can't open affix or dictionary files.
> [~] hunspell -d en_US
> Hunspell 1.2.6
> test
> *
> 
> strace output reveals that hunspell is looking for dictionaries like
> german.aff and german.dic.

Hrm.

> No clue how it detects that I'm German.

Do you happen to have the DICTIONARY environment variable set? To "german"?
ispell honurs that. hunspell does, too.

        if (! dicname) {
                if (! (dicname=getenv("DICTIONARY"))) {
                        if ((dicname=ui_lang) || (dicname=getenv("LANG"))) {
[...]

Hrm. That means we probably should add appropriate symlinks to the
myspell-*/hunspell-*packages...

Regards,

Rene