Empathy using wrong English dictionary

[Elladan]

Binary package hint: empathy

I have my system language set to English (United States), and the spellcheck option in Empathy set to "English" (the only option), but Empathy appears to be using a British spellcheck dictionary, contrary to system settings.

For example, it accepts the term "maths" but flags "math" as a spelling error.

It should use an English dictionary that matches the system setting.

I'm using Maverick with Empathy 2.31.92.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.31.92-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 2 12:40:35 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy

[Elladan (elladan)]

By the way, other tools appear to use the American English dictionary, so it's not that one isn't installed.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

can you check in empathy preferences if you can enable american dictionary there

[Elladan (elladan)]

No, "English" is the only option.

[Tim Casey (tjcasey)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.

There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test a current, supported, Ubuntu version.

If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running

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and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Dan Crews (crewsd)]

I'm having the same issue using:

Ubuntu 11.04
Empathy 2.34.0

The problem seems to be related to the issue that the language is "English" and "English (United States)" is simply a translation of "English". Could it be that Empathy only supports Language dictionaries and not translation dictionaries?