Can anyone tell me what is wrong with LibreOffice?

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 21:50 +1100, Owen Thomas wrote:
> libreoffice-writer:
>   Installed: 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2

I have the same version as you do. I live in Oz, I have several
dictionaries installed including Australian English. If I open a clean
document and type "color" it is flagged as a misspelling with a wiggly
red line underneath it. Same for "humor", "sanitize" and a bunch of
other americanisms. It also flags outright wrong stuff like "hgft". If
I instead type "colour", "humour" and "sanitise", there is no wiggly
red line.

If I change the "Languages" option and make the locale and language
"English (USA)", the americanisms versions lose the wiggly line and the
correctly spelled versions :-) gain one. So to me it all seems to be
working fine. I didn't try going through the Tools menu.

Can you provide a  short procedure that will (on your system) reliably
demonstrate the problem? And what specific indicator you are using for
the problem? E.g., "I type 'humor', I expect the word to be flagged
with a wiggly red underline when I type a space after the final letter
of the word, but the word does not get flagged."

Regards, K.

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