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Bug 666383 - British English spellings always marked as incorrect
British English spellings always marked as incorrect
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accessibility
2.33.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-12-16 18:46 UTC by Bilal Shahid
Modified: 2018-05-22 15:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
test app (1.14 KB, text/x-csrc)
2012-01-30 10:53 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes 		Details

Description Bilal Shahid 2011-12-16 18:46:56 UTC 
Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/860096

This is apparently the exact opposite of Bug 445863.  My system is set to en_GB yet Empathy continually underlines words that are not spelled the American English way.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 26 23:13:32 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XsessionErrors: (process:2961): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-01-30 10:20:24 UTC 
How is this related to bug #445863 ?  Does it work with gedit?
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-01-30 10:53:06 UTC 
Created attachment 206408 [details]
test app

Here is a small test script.

Please build it using: gcc $(pkg-config --cflags --libs enchant) test-enchant.c
and run it using: ./a.out $LANG $WORD

where $LANG is the code of the lang you want to use and $WORD the word you want is spelling to be checked. Running the app without any argument will just display all the dictionnaries installed on your system.

You may have to install libenchant-dev in order to build it.
Comment 3 Debarshi Ray 2012-03-06 12:33:46 UTC 
Guillaume, the "exact opposite bug" that Bilal referred to is a Launchpad bug. The related GNOME bug is: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/598958

But it works for me with current Git master.
Comment 4 Will Thompson 2012-08-28 16:46:05 UTC 
I had this problem. I noticed just now that I had both myspell-en-gb and myspell-en-us installed; removing the latter made Empathy stop telling me "favourite" is wrong.

Perhaps this is related to how Empathy only showed one "English" entry in the list of available dictionaries?
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 15:17:03 UTC 
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