Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[consultores1 <consultores1@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:47 -0400, H.S. wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 08/21/08 13:48, 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
> > 
> > They're trying to tell you something...
> > 
> 
> Could you please keep the sarcasm away and at least give me a benefit of
> the doubt that I have looked at this problem with some minimum care? But
> I will spell it out for you: I know it is not installed. So, where can I
> find it in Debian? Does Debian even have it, even though it has en_ca
> locale? What am I missing here?
> 

Hello H.S.

I'm having the same situation, it looks that the Canadian dictionary
doesn't exist yet! and by default it use U.S. dictionary.

My preference in this case is to use British dictionary, but i can't.