For curiosity, I changed it to use only Norwegian (Bokmål) and it works. So this seems not to be a "non-English" problem but only one with the German locale. Which spellchecker does Empathy use? I tried hunspell on the command line for German and it worked without any problems.
** Attachment added: "Using only Norwegian (Bokmål)" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43957238/spell_checker_norwegian.png -- German spellchecking does not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559894 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs