On 26/04/06, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:54 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > >> Have the dictionary installed, rebooted, still get every single word > >> marked as mis-spelled. > > > > Hmm, sounds like you're one step away from doing what I had to do to > > Australianise dictionaries on computers: Load in a perfectly spelt > > document with common spell-check problem words, run the spell checker, > > and add every word to the user dictionary. > > > > But back to your situation... Does that mean it can't *find* any > > installed dictionary file, or its not using it? > > The original problem was that I couldn't even install the dictionary, so > I only had US English as an option. However, even with that selected, > every single word was marked as an error (underlined in red), and since > there isn't *that* much difference between UK and US English, that was a > problem in itself. > > Running tb as root, I was able to install the UK English language pack, > and "English/United Kingdom" is now the "Language" setting on > Preferences/Composition/Spelling. > > However, I still have the problem that every single word is underlined > as an error. So tb appears not be actually be using the dictionary at > all. Using "Add to dictionary" from the context menu does make the red > lines go away for the selected word though. > For a quick fix see the OpenOffice dictionaries section of: <http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html>. Needs to be done as root, and obviously symlinking is preferable to actually copying the files. -- imalone
