Bug#623000: libreoffice-writer: spell checking fails to work in Italian (Italy) and maybe in other languages
Package: libreoffice-writer
Version: 1:3.3.2-2+b1
Severity: normal
Hi!
Thanks for maintaining LibreOffice in Debian.
I have the following packages installed (along with their dependencies):
* libreoffice
* libreoffice-l10n-it
* hyphen-en-us
* mythes-en-us
* hyphen-it
* mythes-it
No special configuration tweaking was done.
I start libreoffice-writer:
$ lowriter
and write some stuff in US English; spell checking seems to work
correctly: as soon as I write a word the wrong way, it is underlined
in a red wavy line, and I can right-click on it to get suggestions
and other spell checking related options.
OK, let's quit and start over.
Once again, I start libreoffice-writer:
$ lowriter
and write some stuff in Italian; spell checking underlines almost
all words, since they are not valid US English. OK, let's change
the language from English (USA) to Italian (Italy): I choose this
language from Tools -> Language -> For all Text.
Language is now set to Italian (Italy) for the entire document,
it seems, and I no longer see any word underlined in red.
Wait, not even wrongly written words are underlined!
I tried to click on the AutoSpellCheck button on the tool bar,
with no visible effect.
I am not able to get spell checking to work for me
in Italian (Italy).
It's possible that other languages (different from English (USA))
have the same issue: I tried to install other packages
(libreoffice-l10n-en-gb and myspell-en-gb) in order to get
English (UK) spell checking, with no success, unfortunately.
Also, installing myspell-it does not seem to help.
I seem to remember that I had the same problem with
openoffice.org, but now, with libreoffice, I think that
I really have to solve it once and for all...
Please help!
What's wrong with my installation?
What did I fail to understand?
Thanks for your time!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libreoffice-writer depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-2 GCC support library
ii libicu44 4.4.2-2 International Components for Unico
ii libreoffice-base-co 1:3.3.2-2+b1 office productivity suite -- share
ii libreoffice-core 1:3.3.2-2+b1 office productivity suite -- arch-
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libwpd-0.9-9 0.9.1-2 Library for handling WordPerfect d
ii libwpg-0.2-2 0.2.0-4 WordPerfect graphics import/conver
ii libwps-0.2-2 0.2.0-3 Works text file format import filt
ii ure 1.7.0+LibO3.3.2-2+b1 LibreOffice UNO runtime environmen
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages libreoffice-writer recommends:
ii gcj-4.4-jre [java5-runtime] 4.4.5-14 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii libreoffice-emailmerge 1:3.3.2-2 office productivity suite -- email
ii libreoffice-filter-binfilte 1:3.3.2-2+b1 office productivity suite -- legac
ii libreoffice-java-common 1:3.3.2-2 office productivity suite -- arch-
ii libreoffice-math 1:3.3.2-2+b1 office productivity suite -- equat
Versions of packages libreoffice-writer suggests:
ii libreoffice-base 1:3.3.2-2+b1 office productivity suite -- datab
pn libreoffice-gcj <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages libreoffice-core depends on:
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.32.0-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.4-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libdb5.1 5.1.25-1 Berkeley v5.1 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-2 GCC support library
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0 2.22.1-1+sid1 GDK Pixbuf library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgraphite3 1:2.3.1-0.2 SILGraphite - a "smart font" rende
ii libgstreamer-plu 0.10.32-2 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10 0.10.32-6 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.3-1~sid1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.2- 1.2.14-4 spell checker and morphological an
ii libhyphen0 2.7.1-4 ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha
ii libice6 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libicu44 4.4.2-2 International Components for Unico
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmythes-1.2-0 2:1.2.1-1 simple thesaurus library
ii libneon27-gnutls 0.29.5-3 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.7-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.9.with.ckbi.1.82-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-6 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-2 PNG library - runtime
ii librdf0 1.0.13-2 Redland Resource Description Frame
ii libreoffice-comm 1:3.3.2-2 office productivity suite -- arch-
ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.0d-2 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtextcat0 2.2-9 Language detection library
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.9-2 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 2:1.2.0-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.1-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-7 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii ttf-opensymbol 2:2.4.3+LibO3.3.2-2 OpenSymbol TrueType font
ii ure 1.7.0+LibO3.3.2-2+b1 LibreOffice UNO runtime environmen
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
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