words that were known in 8.04 now listed as mispelled after upgrade to 8.10

[Jamin W. Collins]

Binary package hint: gajim

I'm not sure whether this should be filed against Gajim or aspell, or perhaps even something else. However, I first noticed the problem in Gajim.

After upgrading to 8.10, I noticed that words that I'm sure where properly recognized under 8.04 aren't. Many of these are common words. For example Gajim now lists all of the following as misspelled: works, nicely, really, words, checking, having, ends, seems, regressions, lists.

Should probably be noted that Firefox is not suffering from the same problem as I submit this report.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: gajim 0.11.4-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gajim
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, what dictionnary is selected in gedit?

[Jamin W. Collins (jcollins)]

The same as it was under 8.04, English. There do appear to be variants of English, of which "English (United States)" appears to recognize all of the words listed here.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seems to be rather a dictionnary one than a gedit bug

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

Like Sebastien said, this probably have to do with dictionaries. Especially if it's reproducible in different programs written in different languages.

[Jamin W. Collins (jcollins)]

How is the bug report invalid? The dictionary selection worked fine under 8.04, the same selection after an upgrade to 8.10 doesn't work. We've established that changing the dictionary does fix it. However, the dictionary necessary to fix it (en-us) isn't directly selectable in at least one of the effected applications (gajim).

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

 Hi Jamin,

Would you mind testing the latest version of Gajim either from my PPA or from Jaunty please. I can not reproduce with bug with neither British, nor English selected as dictionary. Please also make sure your system is fully up to date.

Cheers, /N

[Jamin W. Collins (jcollins)]

Just double checked this with an 8.04 system, using gajim 0.11.4. With only "use_speller" activated and no language specified, it recognizes all the words listed in the initial report as spelled correctly. So, I'm guessing that I never explicitly specified the spell check language. Then the behavior of the unspecified language changed on upgrade?

In either case with the spell check language explicitly defined, the words are recognized.

The main reason for the report was an unexpected change in existing working behavior.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does anybody still have the issue in jaunty?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you write an example file and call enchant -d <locale> example and see if it lists the same errors?

[Jamin W. Collins (jcollins)]

I no longer have the 8.10 system available for testing. The system has been moved to the current 9.04 alpha.

While the system was running 8.10 manually selecting either the British or English dictionary in each application did fix the spell checking. However, it was a manual configuration change, it was not handled as part of the 8.04 -> 8.10 upgrade.

[Jonathan Michalon (johndescs)]

What about this bug now? Should it be closed as Intrepid is now unsupported (but still available at packages.ubuntu.com)?

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Intrpid reached EOL on April 30 2010.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade and try to to reproduce this bug.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Jamin W. Collins (jcollins)]

I haven't experienced this bug with any of the recent upgrades. The steps for solving it, if experienced are listed within this bug report. As also indicated within the report, all the systems I own have long since been upgraded.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.