UK dictionary for spellcheck in an US install

[dennisnuel]

Binary package hint: empathy

Words like fiber are fibre in the spell check. There are other words mostly to do to differences in spelling between UK and US dictionaries. There is a wikipedia article on the differences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-re.2C_-er

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 14 16:39:55 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: empathy 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

same issue than bug #445863?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Is this the same as bug #445863 ? If not then please send this bug upstream and provide us with the link. thanx in advance

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

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!

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[T. Dalbo (tdalbo)]

I'd like to reopen this bug, as the default dictionary for United States installs is still British English. It's annoying, as the differences do show up in everyday conversation. It may not seem to be of significance to users in Great Britain or South Africa, it's enough of an impact to give a very unfinished look to the operating system as a whole.

It does seem to be a duplicate of the previously mentioned bug, unfortunately that bug hasn't had any activity in awhile.

To give a little bit of input, in past installs of Ubuntu (and other GNOME distributions) one could just go into the gconf-editor and change the /apps/empathy key to read "US-English" instead of "English".
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be an "empathy" option in the .gconf settings. This holds true on both my Fedora and Ubuntu installs.