the Bulgarian spell-check does not function

[Miroslav Hadzhiev]

Binary package hint: evolution

The Bulgarian spell-checking does not work. It marks every word as misspelled.
I tried writing in English (GB) and in French and the words were corrected properly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 1 12:34:21 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: evolution 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1778): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1778): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1858): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1815): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (nautilus:2965): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

The Bulgarian spell-check is not working in Empathy, too.

[Trifon Trifonov (triffon)]

Seems to be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/580814

The common problem is the Bulgarian myspell dictionaries, which are cp1251 encoded. After you convert them to UTF-8 as explained in the bug above, then you have again spell checking for evolution and empathy.

Attaching the converted dictionary files (based on version 3.0-9build1), which need to be extracted in /usr/share/myspell/dicts to fix the problem.

[Trifon Trifonov (triffon)]

This bug was first reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bgoffice/+bug/346856

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

There's a fix and it's here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bgoffice/+bug/346856/comments/2

and here

for OpenOffice 3.2:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bgoffice/+bug/346856/comments/6

It has been QUITE a while since the first bug was reported on 2009-03-22.

Please, fix the bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Vladislav K. Valtchev (vladislav-valtchev)]

Hi,
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and Evolution 3.28-5 and I believe I'm hitting the same problem (10 years later!).

The spell checker marks every word as misspelled when Bulgarian is used, while with English it seems to work pretty fine.

Can this bug be fixed, please?

Thanks,
Vlad