Canadian Spell Check & English (Canadian) language

[Ahmad Samir]

On 19 August 2013 02:03, Bill Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 23:45 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> > On 18 August 2013 16:58, Heinz Diehl <htd at 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.
> >
> > --
> > imalone
> > http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
>
> 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

-- 
Ahmad Samir
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