thunderbird spelling dictionaries.

[Paul Howarth]

Ian Malone 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.

Found the problem; after installing the UK English dictionary by running 
tb as root, it was installed in 
/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5/components/myspell with mode 400, owned by 
root, and hence unreadable by anyone else. Changing the perms to 644 and 
restarting tb resolved the issue.

Thanks all.

Paul.