Evolution doesn't add words to dictionary

[robbanl]

Binary package hint: evolution

When spell checking is enabled you get the option to add a word not recognized by evolution to the dictionary. The problem is that the words i add doesn't save. I use the Swedish translation and dictionary.

To reproduce this issue.

1. Open a new message
2. Spell a word wrong.
3. Right click the word and choose add to dictionary.
4. The word doesn't get saved and you get the same underlined word again when typing a new message.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 1 10:03:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you try if the change on bug #446230 fixes the issue?

[robbanl (robert-lindberg1978)]

The patch for libenchant didn't solve this issue for me.

[Clayton Dillard (claytondillard)]

I have the same issue in Karmic with English.

[Clayton Dillard (claytondillard)]

Oh, and I'm running 64 bit.

[bitinerant (bitinerant)]

This is a regression--adding words to the Evolution custom dictionary worked fine in Ubuntu 9.04. I am experiencing this problem on Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit with the 'English' and 'English (United States)' dictionaries enabled. Three other people at http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8240829 have also said they are experiencing this bug.

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

Any progress on this? I don't think its a "low" priority, its something that happens all day long - maybe someone can tell us why the report is incomplete?

[Colin (colin-sands)]

I am also wondering when this might be fixed also at same time can I delete words that are not "correct"

[Blümchen Blau (bluemchen-blau)]

Bug still exists in Lucid (Evolution 2.28.3) with English and German dictionary.

[ClockworkHippo (daleclose-dodo)]

Check that you have a .dic file in /home/<username>/.config/enchant
I was was missing this file (in my case en_AU.dic) and after adding it evolution's add to dictionary function works as it should.

@Colin you can edit the .dic file in /home/<username>/.config/enchant to delete the incorrect words from your user dictionary.

Hope this helps.

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

@ClockworkHippo

YOU EFFING ROCK!

This solved this problem, in my case creating a en_CA.dic (for Canadian English).

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- CH

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

How can we patch this for Karmic?

[bitinerant (bitinerant)]

I am glad this has helped others, but in my case I already had the file "~/.config/enchant/en_US.dic" (size 0 perms -rw-r--r--). There is also a "en_US.exc". I added a couple of words to "en_US.dic" with vi and then restarted Evolution. Now these new words are recognized as spelled correctly (which is nice); however, I still can not add additional words from within Evolution. (Evolution 2.28.1, Ubuntu 9.10.)

[robbanl (robert-lindberg1978)]

I have upgraded to Lucid and there the dictionary works like it should.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing since that works in lucid