On 19 August 2013 02:03, Bill Case billlinux@rogers.com wrote:
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 23:45 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
On 18 August 2013 16:58, Heinz Diehl htd@fritha.org wrote:
On 18.08.2013, Peter Gueckel wrote:
In KDE settings, you can set the spellcheck language to Canadian and the keyboard to English(US). Libreoffice and Firefox have a Canadian English option. I don't think these are dedicated dictionaries for Canadian spelling
As far as I know, Libreoffice uses aspell for spell-checking. Currently, there's no canadian aspell lib.
By the way, for general spellcheck (e.g. thunderbird, kwrite) I think hunspell-en is what you'd need, it seems hunspell libraries replace aspell on recent Fedora (e.g. I had to add hunspell-en-GB, en-US is default, the other English libraries are collected in plain en). Though Libreoffice writer here seems to offer Canadian and other English variants without that installed.
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FYI, I got LibreOffice to spell check Canadian English by installing every hunspell-eng package I could find in the Fedora repo. I am not sure which is responsible. I then selected English(Canada) in spelling in LibreOffice options. It looks like I now have everything working and spell checking correctly. I don't think there is a specific Canadian English dictionary in aspell or hunspell but some programming that identifies Canadian spellings using both UK and US dictionaries.
There is a separate en_CA dictionary:
$ rpm -ql hunspell-en | grep CA /usr/share/doc/hunspell-en-0.20121024/README_en_CA.txt /usr/share/myspell/en_CA.aff /usr/share/myspell/en_CA.dic