Thunderbird spell-checking for non en_US broken

orschiro · 2014-09-22 06:29:15

Hi there,

Is someone else experiencing issues with spell-checking support for languages other than en_US?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to write and compose a new message
2. Click on the "Spelling" button in the top toolbar to select the dictionary.

In that selection I used to see all my installed dictionaries. Now I only see English (US).

Installed dictionaries:

hunspell 1.3.3-1
hunspell-de-de 20131206-1
hunspell-en-gb 7.1-2
hunspell-nl-nl 2.10g-1
hunspell-pl 20120911-2

Tested with the following versions of Thunderbird:

thunderbird 31.1.1-1
thunderbird-beta-bin 33.0b1-1

It does not seem to be an add-on issue since I also tried it with all add-ons being disabled.

Other programs still properly use the installed dictionaries.

dice · 2014-09-22 15:05:09

% pacman -Qqs hunspell
hunspell
hunspell-de
hunspell-en

installed from official repos. They show up in thunderbird for me. From where did you install your dictionaries?

Last edited by dice (2014-09-22 15:05:29)

ninian · 2014-09-22 16:22:50

With these (latest) versions of official x86_64 packages:

$ pacman -Qs hunspell
local/hunspell 1.3.3-1
    Spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program
local/hunspell-en 7.1-3
    English hunspell dictionaries
$ pacman -Q thunderbird
local/thunderbird 31.1.1-1
    Standalone Mail/News reader

Works okay for me too.

orschiro · 2014-09-23 04:16:17

Thanks for your reports!

I need to correct myself. The dictionaries are working in TB31 (stable). It is just the Beta that does not work.

I installed the Beta as well as the minimal dictionaries from the AUR (except for hunspell-pl which is from the official repo).

Can someone confirm the issue with TB33 (beta)?

Arch Linux

#1 2014-09-22 06:29:15

Thunderbird spell-checking for non en_US broken

#2 2014-09-22 15:05:09

Re: Thunderbird spell-checking for non en_US broken

#3 2014-09-22 16:22:50

Re: Thunderbird spell-checking for non en_US broken

#4 2014-09-23 04:16:17

Re: Thunderbird spell-checking for non en_US broken

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