Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@feds.uwaterloo.ca>]

H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I
> use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I
> select the language to be EN_CA from the Tools->Language menu, the
> dictionary does not work.
>
> So, how do I get the the Canadian dictionary to work OOo in Debian Lenny?
>
>
> I have these installed:
> $> dpkg -l *myspell* | grep ^i
> ii  libmyspell3c2  1:3.1-18       MySpell spellchecking library
> ii  myspell-en-gb  1:2.4.0-2      English_british dictionary for myspell
> ii  myspell-en-us  1:2.4.0-2      English_american dictionary for myspell
>
> Thanks in advance.

If I recall correctly, for the longest time one just didn't exist for 
OOo.  OpenOffice.org offers the following page (disclosure: I haven't 
tried it):

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries

I'd be interested in knowing how you make out.

Cheers,

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