Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: empathy
When I have "English" selected for the spell checking language under
Edit > Preferences > Spell Checking, US English spellings of words
(e.g., "favorite", "behavior", and "analyze"), are marked as incorrect
and their GB English counterparts (e.g., "favourite", "behaviour", and
"analyse") are suggested instead.
I make Empathy recognize US English words locally by using gconf-editor to
change the relevant entry at the path below from "en" to "en-US" and restarting
Empathy.
/apps/empathy/conversation/spell_checker_languages
There are two better fixes I can see for this:
(1) Break out the general "English" into the different dialects, e.g, one entry
for "English (GB)", another for "English (US)", another for "English (ZA)",
etc. I believe this to be the best of available options.
(2) Use the entry "English" as a "composite" option, which would actually add
all en-* dialects to the spell checker.
This could potentially be a problem with other languages with major
dialects, such as Chinese (zh-cn and zh-tw), but I have not verified
this.
It should be noted that my system was installed with US English with no
other languages or dialects installed.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: eccee3ffef08eb96dd59ef8dfc7812c8
CheckboxSystem: 36acc479c47ece291c12af9d42b8b11e
Date: Wed Oct 7 18:15:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: empathy 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.40-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:5757): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:5835): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(nautilus:5822): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
`preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(gnome-panel:5821): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to
allocate widget with width -5 and height 24
(gnome-panel:5821): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_event: assertion
`WIDGET_REALIZED_FOR_EVENT (widget, event)' failed
** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Spell checking doesn't allow US English words when using "English" language
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445863
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