<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Charles Curley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charlescurley@charlescurley.com">charlescurley@charlescurley.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The spell checker in Empathy is giving me British (or other<br>
Commonwealth) spelling, not good old American<br>
If-It's-Good-Enough-For-Noah-Webster spelling. When I pull up the<br>
spelling tab in the preferences dialog, all I see is "English". Doh.<br></blockquote><div>That is really interesting. I would have expected some granular divisions in English-US and English-UK. All I see is "English" also. There are some bug reports that seem to address this a little bit. <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/488131">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/488131</a> and <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/445863">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/445863</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>One thing in the second bug it says to: " ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'UbuntuBeta Mono', 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">make Empathy recognize US English words locally by using gconf-editor to change the relevant entry at the path below from "en" to "en-US" and restarting Empathy.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'UbuntuBeta Mono', 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> /apps/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'UbuntuBeta Mono', 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">empathy/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'UbuntuBeta Mono', 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">conversation/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'UbuntuBeta Mono', 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">spell_checker_</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'UbuntuBeta Mono', 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">languages"</span> </div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope it helps</div><div><br></div><div>Will--</div></div>