[Intrepid] Thunderbird : English spellchecker not available

[Loïc Martin]

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

On an Intrepid Alpha 6 x86_64 install in French & up to date, Thunderbird doesn't offer any English spellchecker, even though all the English support packages are installed.

Methods to reproduce the bug : launch Thunderbird, chose New>Message (CTRL-N), click in the message, then try to select the language with the spellchecker icon (see attached snapshot). English isn't offered.

Expected behavior : a choice of languages is offered, including the default English (uk or USA).

What I get : only fr_FR is offered.

It would seem as if Thunderbird uses only the locale it's started with. However, when started from a terminal after exporting an English locale (~$export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" ), even though Thunderbird use an English interface, the only spellchecker offered is still in French (see 2nd attached snapshot).

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Loïc Martin wrote:
> ** Attachment added: "Same problem with an English locale (en_US.UTF-8)"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18097237/Thunderbird-en_US_locale_no_English_spellchecker.png
>
>
If you install hunspell it will work. Please let me know if this is true
for you as well. Here is my list:

ii hunspell 1.2.6-1ubuntu1 spell checker and morphological
analyzer (pr
un hunspell-dicti <none> (no description available)
un hunspell-dicti <none> (no description available)
un hunspell-dicti <none> (no description available)
un hunspell-dicti <none> (no description available)
ii hunspell-en-us 20070829-2ubun English_american dictionary for hunspell

 status incomplete

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[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

hunspell-en-us, hunspell-fr and libhunspell-1.2-0 are already installed.

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

Works with Intrepid Beta 1