Spelling checker does nothing because nl_BE spelling is missing or isn't configured by default

[Geoffrey De Smet]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

I just installed Ubuntu 8.10, choose Dutch language and country Belgium (so locale nl_BE)
I opened openoffice.org and everything was is dutch (good :)
I typed some words, but the spelling wasn't checked.
It turns out a default document isn't in dutch.
Looks like even the dutch spelling file isn't installed.

When installing the dutch OOo on Windows, default documents have nl_BE by default and spelling is checked.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/build/apache-maven-2/bin
 LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

[Geoffrey De Smet (ge0ffrey)]

Looks like the default language for documents is nl_BE from the settings, but it's just not installed and so it doesn't work.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

The Dutch 'myspell-nl' dictionary does not appear to register for Belgium only for the Netherlands. So OpenOffice.org does not detect that there is a spellchecker available for Dutch (Belgium).

Reassigning bug to package 'dutch'.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Jean-Louis Dupond (dupondje)]

This bug is fixable by

cd /usr/share/myspell/dicts
sudo ln -s nl.aff nl_BE.aff
sudo ln -s nl.aff nl-BE.aff
sudo ln -s nl.dic nl-BE.dic
sudo ln -s nl.dic nl_BE.dic

[Thijs Kinkhorst (kink)]

This fix will be incorporated in the next upload, scheduled within a few weeks.

[Jean-Louis Dupond (dupondje)]

Patch to fix this :)

[Jean-Louis Dupond (dupondje)]

Thijs: Any idea when you will upload a fixed version ?

[Thijs Kinkhorst (kink)]

1:1.10-2 now synced