thunderbird spelling dictionaries.

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 11:29:21 UTC 2006


On 26/04/06, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/04/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > Tim wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:54 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > >> Have the dictionary installed, rebooted, still get every single word
> > >> marked as mis-spelled.
> > >
> > > Hmm, sounds like you're one step away from doing what I had to do to
> > > Australianise dictionaries on computers:  Load in a perfectly spelt
> > > document with common spell-check problem words, run the spell checker,
> > > and add every word to the user dictionary.
> > >
> > > But back to your situation... Does that mean it can't *find* any
> > > installed dictionary file, or its not using it?
> >
> > The original problem was that I couldn't even install the dictionary, so
> > I only had US English as an option. However, even with that selected,
> > every single word was marked as an error (underlined in red), and since
> > there isn't *that* much difference between UK and US English, that was a
> > problem in itself.
> >
> > Running tb as root, I was able to install the UK English language pack,
> > and "English/United Kingdom" is now the "Language" setting on
> > Preferences/Composition/Spelling.
> >
> > However, I still have the problem that every single word is underlined
> > as an error. So tb appears not be actually be using the dictionary at
> > all. Using "Add to dictionary" from the context menu does make the red
> > lines go away for the selected word though.
> >
>
> For a quick fix see the OpenOffice dictionaries section  of:
> <http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html>.
> Needs to be done as root, and obviously symlinking is preferable
> to actually copying the files.
>

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186421>,
fixing the Thunderbird dictionary installation is one thing, but
it would make sense to install appropriate dictionaries as rpms
surely?  Suppose it's time I actually opened a bugzilla account.

--
imalone




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