Canadian English LO spell check

[Bob Jonkman]

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There was an OpenOffice plugin to enable a Canadian English spell
checker/thesaurus in OpenOffice. I'm successfully using it with
LibreOffice v4.1.3.2

I mirrored a copy at

 http://sobac.com/ZIPfiles/Office%20Productivity/en_CA_2_0_0.oxt


There's another version of a Canadian dictionary/thesaurus on the
LibreOffice extensions site, but I haven't used it:

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/american-british-canadian-spelling-hyphen-thesaurus-dictionaries

- --Bob.



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On 14-04-13 10:32 AM, John Kerr wrote:
> My work around is to select UK English as the dictionary.  But I
> would like this to work without someone having to scratch their
> left ear with their right toe.
> 
> Thanks for raising the issue. Again, this is one of those bugs that
> can be a show stopper for some people. Those of us who spend much
> time promoting FLOSS would like to see some time spent getting
> these things fixed.
> 
> Best regards, John On Apr 12, 2014 2:45 PM, "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
>> 
>> 
>> -- ubuntu-ca mailing list ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com 
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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