language-support-en pollutes Firefox's spell-check languages list
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
igerman98 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
language-support-en (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
language-support-writing-en (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hello! This is about the package language-support-en on Ubuntu Gutsy, but it applies generally to all language-support-* packages in all or most other Ubuntu versions.
When I install the package, English dictionaries for the spell-checking feature of Firefox are installed. The problem is that it doesn't install a single dictionary; I get six different entries in the languages list (right-click on a spell-checkable field, go to the "Languages..." menu): "English / United Kingdom", "en_US", "English / United States", "en_ZA", "English / South Africa" and "en_GB". I also need the Romanian dictionary (which added "Romanian" and "ro_RO") and French (which interestingly only adds _one_ entry). By the way, in Firefox's languages list in the Add-ons window there are only three entries, one for each language.
In conclusion, instead of choosing between three options I am now forced to choose between nine!
What's worse, it seems these dictionaries cannot be disabled. I tried disabling English in Firefox's Add-ons window, it's grayed-out but the six options still appear in the right-click menu. This means that I can't simply get rid of them and install a separate dictionary. (I could uninstall the language-support-* packages, but then I'd loose the other features of the packages, like OOo spell-check.)
Changed in firefox-3.0: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
I can confirm this issue. Uninstalling the relevant myspell-en-* packages (and restarting firefox) will remove the respective entries, but ideally bug #28226 should be fixed so just one dictionary is installed in the first place.
This bug is really about the two entries per dictionary, eg "en_ZA" as well as "English / South Africa". I'm not sure why this occurs, but I can confirm it.