Bruce Bowler posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:05:03 +0000 as excerpted: > Window 7, pan 0.140, where do I specify the spell checking language? > I'm in the USofA, not the UK, and pan spell checking is insisting that I > should spell color "colour".
For individual groups there should be a spell-check setting in group preferences (edit menu, at or near the bottom). Note that it'll only have choices for the compatible dictionaries you have installed. Here (and I guess there too), that's English, so there are choices for English variants, nothing else. It has been quite some time since this topic came up and I'm not /sure/ it hasn't changed since then, but AFAIK, pan's global default spellcheck language is read from an environmental variable. Unfortunately I don't recall what it was. However, searching the /proc/<pan-pid>/environ file (on a Linux system listing the environment for the process with that pid, aka process-id) for case-insensitive "en", I see this environmental variable set: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 So presumably at least on a Linux system, LANG is the environmental variable to set, with en_US.UTF-8 the value I must have set in some startup file somewhere, at some point. FWIW while I'm in the US also, but spent six years as a kid in a recently former crown colony (Kenya, they celebrated 10 years of independence while I was there, in 1973, so they hadn't diverged much yet) and am reasonably comfortable with en_GB spellings as well, tho en_US spellings generally being shorter I normally adopt them. And I don't know any other languages. So I've just let pan do whatever, adding individual words as desired to my personal dictionary. In many cases I'll select the word first, triggering a klipper (kde clipboard and selection helper applet) popup with a bunch of action choices based on the selection including googling it on google or wikipedia or wictionary. Being a descriptivist and adult of some years no longer having to worry about somebody grading my spelling and usage, if wictionary lists the word, I'll normally consider the spelling valid regardless of what various prescriptivists might think about it and regardless of what English variant it might be normative (or not) in. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
