Openoffice - writing aids not comming up

[Patrick Cherry]

On Fri 01 Oct 2004, Leon Vismer wrote:

> I installed the ubuntu distribution on an AMD64 and openoffice (1.1.2)
> works just fine except that when I install a dictionary it does not come
> up under writing aids and remains empty. No options exists to edit. 

Me too (I posted to this list a few days ago about this ... 
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2004-September/002413.html )

> I have tried the following: 
> - Installed a dictionary pack and select the English (South Africa) dict
> and made sure that my language settings are also set to English (South
> Africa) 
> - my locale is set to LANG=en_ZA 
> - in ~/.openoffice/1.1.2/user/workbook/ I have en_GB.aff, en_GB.dic 
> - my dictionary.lst file contains "DICT en ZA en_GB" 

Me too (apart from I just use en_GB) 

> I am at a loss, any help would be great 

At least we can be at a loss together!  P'raps a bug should be filed?

Patrick