Spanish language: spelling of "y" as "why"

[mmertens]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I have Kubuntu Linux 7.10 and use Pidgin 2.2.1 as my instant messenger. Lenguage is Spanish and one of most used letters is "y" that stays for "and". Well, every time I write "y", the system replaces it with "why" that is the pronounced name of the letter. So I have to go back to "why" and erase by hand the "w" and the "h" in excess.
I like Pidgin because it is a very good tool and this is the only thing I have noticed that don't works fine.

Manfred Mertens

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 21 20:37:04 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin --session 10e1d2d3e5000120404959900000054480054
ProcCwd: /media/datos/home/mmertens
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_BO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux mmertens 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Eamonn McManus (eamonn)]

I'll bet this is the Text Replacement plugin. To fix the problem, go to Tools->Plugins and either disable the Text Replace plugin by unchecking it in the list (my preference, because I don't like machines deciding what I should have typed); or click on the plugin in the list and then the "Configure plugin" button, where you can delete any rewrites that don't suit you.

I'm putting this comment here in the hope it will be of help to other users who, like me, spend some considerable time trying to figure out where the rewrites were coming from and how to stop them.

[mmertens (mmertens)]

Thank you for your commitment. I was using kopete and have checked now pidgin,
the Text Replace plugin is disabled but the bug is away, you get now "y for
y". I will now come back using pidgin.

Cordially,

Manfred

El Wednesday 25 March 2009 15:26:11 escribió:
> I'll bet this is the Text Replacement plugin. To fix the problem, go to
> Tools->Plugins and either disable the Text Replace plugin by unchecking
> it in the list (my preference, because I don't like machines deciding
> what I should have typed); or click on the plugin in the list and then
> the "Configure plugin" button, where you can delete any rewrites that
> don't suit you.
>
> I'm putting this comment here in the hope it will be of help to other
> users who, like me, spend some considerable time trying to figure out
> where the rewrites were coming from and how to stop them.