Canadian English LO spell check

[LP]

I thought my spell check was not working properly on one of my machines but
did not look at it closely.
I will pay closer attention to the little things from now on.
Thanks.




On 12 April 2014 14:45, Allan <allan at azic.ca> wrote:

> Canadian English spell check in LO is not functional as it should be.
>
> If LANG=en_CA or en_CA.UTF-8, spell check will not work by default when
> libreoffice is installed.
>
> This probably affects a lot of Canadians and Canadian English
> enthusiasts in the world who specify en_CA or en_CA.UTF-8 in the
> installer and then find their spell check to be not working in LO, with
> no warning at all.
>
> More details below:
>
> What happens is:
> The language will display English (Canada) in LO but no spelling
> mistakes will be highlighted. When a full spell check is performed, a
> dialogue box appears with the misleading message: "The spellcheck is
> complete."
>
> US English spell check will work.
>
> The cause is:
> libreoffice will pull hunspell-en-us, not hunspell-en-ca.
>
> Installing the hunspell-en-ca package installs the Canadian English
> dictionary and effectively fixes spell check.
>
> \\
>
> I've noticed this for years with various Ubuntu installers. I can't say
> for all of them right now though, as I've recently only used the 13.10
> minimal install (where this is still happening).
>
> A fix would be to pull the hunspell-en-ca package as appropriate
> depending on the LANG settings.
> This should work with other variants too.
>
> A warning should also be displayed if the dictionary is not present for
> the selected language.
>
> It'd be nice to know if this issue affects you, or if you want to
> implement the fix.
>
> Kind regards,
> Allan
>
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