Cannot change language of spell checker

[Benjamin Drung]

Binary package hint: xchat

There is no possibility to change the language for spell checking; neither in the options, nor in the context menu.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xchat 2.8.6-2.1ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xchat
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 129514, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I do not think that this bug is an duplicate. This bug is about the missing possibility to change the language, but bug #129514 wants also to change it for every channel.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

OK, unmarking as such.

Bug 129514 depends on having this capability in the first place.

Marking as Confirmed/Wishlist; needs upstream task to be set.

[Michal Predotka (mpredotka)]

Nearly two years later... Any progress with this bug?

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

No, none at all.

Please note that xchat is in Universe -- as such, it is a target of opportunity/interest. Upstream has been slow for the last years, and seems to be again gaining momentum; this is known upstream, and was (in 2008, or thereabout) considered to be a potentially major change. Personally, I do not know, I have never looked at xchat's source code.

Anyway: it is a target of opportunity/interest. If you are so inclined, you could write a patch for it.

[Sérgio Faria (sergio91pt)]

I'm not sure where this was fixed (xchat, libaspell, libhunspell) but seems fixed in Oneiric (see attached screenshot).