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zilverling

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From: Bennekom, Netherlands

Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 84

poedit does not find hunspell dictionary

As I want to contribute Dutch translation strings to BackdropCMS, I installed poedit a few hours ago.

It installs fine, but when I start the programme and open the .po file that I want to work on, I get an error message on top of the poedit-window, saying: "Spellchecking is disabled, because the dictionary for Dutch isn't installed."

However, the hunspell dictionary for Dutch is installed on my system:

$ sudo pacman -Qs hunspell
local/hunspell 1.7.2-3
    Spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program
local/hunspell-de 20161207-9
    German hunspell dictionaries
local/hunspell-en_gb 2026.02.25-1
    GB English hunspell dictionaries
local/hunspell-en_us 2026.02.25-1
    US English hunspell dictionaries
local/hunspell-fr 7.7-1
    French (classic/modern) hunspell dictionaries
local/hunspell-nl 2.20.19-5
    Dutch hunspell dictionaries

When I start poedit from a terminal window I get the following error messages:

$ poedit

(net.poedit.Poedit:40565): libenchant-WARNING **: 16:36:41.049: broker.vala:156: Error loading plugin: libhspell.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(net.poedit.Poedit:40565): libenchant-WARNING **: 16:36:41.054: broker.vala:156: Error loading plugin: libvoikko.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Is there anybody here who has an idea what could cause poedit not to "find" the hunspell-nl dictionary?

yochananmarqos

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Registered: 2020-02-05

Posts: 218

Re: poedit does not find hunspell dictionary

Have you tried gtranslator instead of poedit?

The poedit output are warnings as it states, not error messages. They are displayed because you don't have hspell or libvoikko installed which you probably don't need unless you need hspell support or Finnish language support . They're optional dependencies for enchant.

zilverling

Member

From: Bennekom, Netherlands

Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 84

Re: poedit does not find hunspell dictionary

@yochananmarqos Thank you for pointing out gtranslator as an alternative for poedit. You are right that the warnings for hspell and libvoikko are just warnings and not relevant for the hunspell error.

I would expect that the error about the missing hunspell directory can be easily resolved and I have filed an issue here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … rk_items/2