Spellchecker set to locale language

[Anders Feder]

Binary package hint: pidgin

The spell checker in pidgin seems to expect that I'm always writing messages in my native language. There should be an option allowing me to change to e.g. English easily.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 4 10:00:06 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

[Kelvin Gardiner (kelvingardiner)]

There is a plugin that provides this functionality, though I haven't used it myself:

http://plugins.guifications.org/trac/wiki/switchspell

The reason this is not part of Pidgin is given here.

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#HowdoIchangethelanguagefortheHighlightMisspelledwordsoption

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Daniel Cordeiro (dcordeiro)]

Well, this is a wish, not really a bug.
But as far as I know, the plugin is not available in Ubuntu Intrepid. :(

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Yes, this is still an issue, if not for the original reporter, then for other people. Pidgin exposes no way to select the language used for spell-checking. The switchspell plugin is not packaged for Ubuntu (the description field of pidgin-plugin-pack mentions it, but the package itself doesn't ship it).

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

[Daniel Cordeiro (dcordeiro)]

This is not a issue in Natty anymore.
Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pidgin (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]