Comment 4 for bug 66015

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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) wrote : Re: [Bug 66015] Re: Duplicate spell checking dictionaries for EN/UK and EN/US

Yes, I know English and American are different. My bug report is about
the fact that I have 4 choices to select out of 2 languages. It should
be two dictionaries, not four. Again, like I said before, the list of
dictionaries I can choose from:

 + en_us
 + English / Verenigde Staten
 + en_uk
 + English / Verenigd Koninkrijk

I don't really understand what the fact that there are differences
between US-English and UK-English have got to do with the fact that
there are four dictionaries.

@Wim vd Meer:
About every claim you make here is incorrect.

"I am not aware of spell-checking abilities in Firefox"
Then you must be a great English language speller or oblivious to the
red underlinings of certain words, or you are running Dapper. The
current test version is Edgy. And this bug is obviously about the
Firefox 2 version installed with Edgy.

"however, if you are referring to localization, you will indeed need
to install the
FIrefox language/region package, since it is not a program controlled by
the desktop environment."

No, firefox language/region _is_ controlled by the desktop
environment. They install language packs for all installed languages
and based on the language-environment variable (a shell-variable they
setup during login) each program, including Firefox, uses the correct
language pack or rosetta-template. In other words, if I login to an
English desktop i get an English firefox. I have never needed to
install any language packs by hand.

So, Willem if you have any more questions not about the fact that I
see 4 instead of 2 dictionaries, please email me personally, or put up
your question on a forum. This is a bug report about the availability
of FOUR instead of TWO dictionaries. Meant to be read by the packger
so he/she can fix this.