Spellchecking in OOo 2.3 does not work

[Timothy Klaver]

OpenOffice.org has a flaw in its Linux version that you may want to remedy quickly. When I use OpenOffice.org on Windows, the auto spell-checker and the spell-checker work perfectly fine. They do not work, however, on Linux. I am using Ubuntu with version 2.3 of OOo. I deliberately spell words wrong, and they are not underlined (which the function is turned on), and the spell-checker tells me my document is complete without any problems. I deliberately spelled "being" as "bieng" and it did not underline it. I ran spell-checker, and it told me my document was perfect. This needs addressed quickly, for even the most gifted at the English language can still make a mistake or two in their typing or writing, and if the program doesn't identify it, it will go unnoticed.

A response received back from OOo itself:
"That must be a Ubuntu-specific problem because the OpenOffice spell checking
works just fine on this Fedora 7 computer."

[Thijs Marinussen (t-marinussen)]

It works here. Are you sure you have all necessary packages installed? At least: myspell-en-us (of myspell-en-gb) and language-support-en? There may be other dependencies, but I'm sure of those.

[Timothy Klaver (timothyklaver)]

It's setup to default just the way 7.10 installed it. :oS

Thijs Marinussen wrote:
> It works here. Are you sure you have all necessary packages installed?
> At least: myspell-en-us (of myspell-en-gb) and language-support-en?
> There may be other dependencies, but I'm sure of those.
>
>

[Dwight Shepherd (dwight-shepherd)]

I can confirm this bug. I have a default install of gutsy also

Check out the attached video

[Thijs Marinussen (t-marinussen)]

You should just install language-support-en to get the dictionaries needed by the spell-checker.
sudo apt-get install language-support-en

[Timothy Klaver (timothyklaver)]

Found the problem. When you install your OS, OOo defaults to the
selections you made for the OS, which is rather dumb. Why? Because if
your language selection does not exist, why default to it? It should be
intelligently programmed to default to something that does exist, or the
equivalent of what you have. English (CA) does not exist, but English
(UK) and English (US) do. The equivalent would be English (UK). Better
yet, why don't they copy the English (UK) and name is English (CA) and
then you have both done and finished. Firefox and Thunderbird are
default to English (US), so why not OOo? Why is it the only program that
tries to default to your settings for the OS, especially when they don't
exist?

Dwight shepherd wrote:
> I can confirm this bug. I have a default install of gutsy also
>
> Check out the attached video
>
> ** Attachment added: "nospell-check.ogg"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10205749/nospell-check.ogg
>
>

[Dwight Shepherd (dwight-shepherd)]

Well clearly this is a bug