Bug#826569: libreoffice writer: doesn't let you select a different language for spell checking

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 06:27:25PM +0200, José Luis González wrote:
> Interestingly my document was written in English and it didn't guess
> English, plus it showed Spanish instead. Probably because Spanish was
> set as the language of the text.

Jup. AFAICT per default it's the locale.

> > and/or check whether they appear in 
> > Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids -> Edit..
> 
> They don't appear there. Only the modules and the standard, technical
> and IgnoreAllList user dictionaries.

?? Next to the modules there's Edit which then has a dropdown with all
languages and which shows what has what available.

> They were installed. As I said before, the problem was the language of
> the text was set as Spanish. Until I set it to British the British
> dictionary didn't appear in the menu, together with Spanish.

But that explains it, if the language is Spanish it will check it as
Spanish of course.

Regards,

Rene