Spell checking doesn't allow US English words when using "English" language
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Empathy |
Expired
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Medium
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
empathy (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Lucid |
Won't Fix
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: empathy
When I have "English" selected for the spell checking language under Edit > Preferences > Spell Checking, US English spellings of words (e.g., "favorite", "behavior", and "analyze"), are marked as incorrect and their GB English counterparts (e.g., "favourite", "behaviour", and "analyse") are suggested instead.
I make Empathy recognize US English words locally by using gconf-editor to change the relevant entry at the path below from "en" to "en-US" and restarting Empathy.
/apps/
There are two better fixes I can see for this:
(1) Break out the general "English" into the different dialects, e.g, one entry for "English (GB)", another for "English (US)", another for "English (ZA)", etc. I believe this to be the best of available options.
(2) Use the entry "English" as a "composite" option, which would actually add all en-* dialects to the spell checker.
This could potentially be a problem with other languages with major dialects, such as Chinese (zh-cn and zh-tw), but I have not verified this.
It should be noted that my system was installed with US English with no other languages or dialects installed.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: eccee3ffef08eb9
CheckboxSystem: 36acc479c47ece2
Date: Wed Oct 7 18:15:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: empathy 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(polkit-
(nautilus:5822): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(gnome-
(gnome-
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) |
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → nobody |
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
assignee: | Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → nobody |
Changed in empathy: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → papercuts-s-empthy |
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | Confirmed → Expired |
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)