I want to get to the bottom of this problem, for it has just struck again on my parents' two Ubuntu machines.
Here is the summary of the problem, as I currently see it. 1) OpenOffice.org relies on myspell for spell-checking service 2) myspell needs dictionary files for each language-country combination that you want it to support 3) there is no myspell-en-ca package (in ubuntu or debian) to provide en-ca dictionary files (there should be) 4) On an en_CA Ubuntu install, OpenOffice.org will look for en-CA dictionaries, and not finding them, give up working entirely I'm not sure how step 4 works, as i don't have a openoffice.org-l10n-en- ca package installed. Perhaps OO.org just knows to look for en-CA based upon the locale setting. If i'm looking at this problem correctly, then, the solution is to create a myspell-en-ca package (myspell-en-gb and myspell-en-za exist, for example) with the correct dictionary files, and then have that be installed along with the other en dictionaries. I have never created a package before, but i will learn how so I can fix this. BTW, if this problem affects all english users in Canada, why hasn't it become a bigger problem than this? -- [jaunty] Package myspell-en-ca for OOo spellcheck https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44100 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
