Comment 22 for bug 282769

The reason I used en_US.UTF-8 on the command line is because it's the one 'locale' told me my system is using;

     ropetin@laptop:~$ locale
     LANG=en_US.UTF-8

The concern with gedit is; if I just open (or write) a document in gedit, click Tools --> Autocheck Spelling, then many many words, including those listed above, get the red squiggly indicating they are incorrectly spelled. If I take the extra step of selecting the dictionary to use by Tools --> Set Language --> English (United States), then the spelling check is performed correctly. As supporting evidence, maybe hinting where the problem lies, from all the English dictionaries listed in gedit, the US, UK, CA and AU ones work fine, but the ZA and just plain English ones, fail with the above red squiggly lines.

The problem as I see it is, other portions of the system (OpenOffice, Thunderbird, this text box in Firefox) seem to have the correct spell-checking by default, by gedit requires me to take an unnecessary extra step for every single text file I want to spell check.