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1veedo
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 Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject: Spell Check doesn't work in anything |
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This has confused me for a while. I have the "spell" use flag enabled but neither abiword nor firefox checks for spelling.
aspell and aspell-en are both installed. |
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paulbiz
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| on firefox, go to about:config and see if spellchecker.dictionary is set properly (to an installed dictionary) |
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1veedo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:10 am Post subject: |
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| That option isn't there. Firefox is set up to check spelling (preferences). |
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paulbiz
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:51 am Post subject: |
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Try to create it (right click -> new -> string). On my firefox it is:
key: spellcheck.dictionary
type: string
value: en_US |
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pigeon768
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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spodiuvgalkvj
nope, didn't work. I set both spellcheck.dictionary and spellchecker.dictionary to en_US
aspell is installed. english dictionary is installed. spell use flag is enabled. |
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notHerbert
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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On my unstable Gentoo there is no spell checking, but on my stable box it works fine.
There is a Firefox dictionary add-on that works. I found it through the Tools - Add-ons menu item in Firefox. |
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paulbiz
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder if your linguas etc are set up?
in /etc/make.conf I have LINGUAS="en en_US" and in my environment i have LANG=en_US and LC_ALL=en_US
my aspell is built with "nls" and "gpm" use flag enabled.
spellcheck works for me in thunderbird, firefox, seamonkey and i'm using ~amd64... weird. |
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notHerbert
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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I have the exact same setup on a x86 and ~x86. On x86 spell works everywhere, on ~x86 no spell.
| Code: | /etc/make.conf LINGUAS="en en_US" yep
aspell "nls gpm" use flag enabled. yep |
| Code: | locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL= |
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1veedo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Tried the firefox tip but it didn't work. I set my lang in /etc/make.conf and reinstalled abiword but abiword still wont spellcheck.
Should I try reemerging some applications to make it work? |
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notHerbert
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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From this page the Firefox spell checker works for me on ~x86.
I tried masking to the stable versions of aspell and hunspell, then re-emerging abiword. Also tried LC_ALL=en_US and LANG=en_US. No joy on ~x86.
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paulbiz
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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How about this: firefox does not actually use aspell. it uses hunspell.
have you got that installed?  |
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notHerbert
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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app-text/hunspell-1.2.8
| Code: | eix hunspell
[I] app-text/hunspell
Available versions: 1.1.9 1.2.6 (~)1.2.7 (~)1.2.8 {ncurses nls readline}
Installed versions: 1.2.8(03:39:02 PM 11/19/2008)(ncurses nls readline)
Homepage: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Description: Hunspell spell checker - an improved replacement for myspell in OOo. |
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paulbiz
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, this is a mystery
if you do "equery u mozilla-firefox" does it have the proper linguas in red? |
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notHerbert
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| paulbiz wrote: | | if you do "equery u mozilla-firefox" does it have the proper linguas in red? |
Yes on both x86 and ~x86
Also there is no hunspell installed on my stable box, only aspell and aspell-en version 0.60 everywhere.
It looks like firefox3 uses hunspell and firefox2 and abiword have no spell dependency.
In fact I remember a time when spell checking did work on ~x86 then it stopped. It has to be an emerged package that broke it. So the challenge is to find that package.  |
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1veedo
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:25 am Post subject: |
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equery u mozilla-firefox shows the proper languages. hunspell is installed as well (it was already installed).
I'm using x86_64 btw. |
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mmm
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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I have been without spell checking in Firefox 3 for a few months now, and it turned out to be a pretty obvious fix:
http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=122727694810370&w=2
I didn't have the English language pack installed. I did this by right-clicking in any text area and selecting "Add dictionaries...". Maybe this will help? |
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stewie
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| mmm wrote: | I have been without spell checking in Firefox 3 for a few months now, and it turned out to be a pretty obvious fix:
http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=122727694810370&w=2
I didn't have the English language pack installed. I did this by right-clicking in any text area and selecting "Add dictionaries...". Maybe this will help? |
I followed the instructions above and now spell checking works in firefox but all other apps are still broken. No dictionaries show up in the lists for evolution, gedit, etc. |
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1veedo
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah spelling works in firefox with that trick. I wonder if you have to do something similar for every application you want spell check in? |
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isilia
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| stewie wrote: | | mmm wrote: | I have been without spell checking in Firefox 3 for a few months now, and it turned out to be a pretty obvious fix:
http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=122727694810370&w=2
I didn't have the English language pack installed. I did this by right-clicking in any text area and selecting "Add dictionaries...". Maybe this will help? |
I followed the instructions above and now spell checking works in firefox but all other apps are still broken. No dictionaries show up in the lists for evolution, gedit, etc. |
Try remerging enchant. |
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stewie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| isilia wrote: | | stewie wrote: | | mmm wrote: | I have been without spell checking in Firefox 3 for a few months now, and it turned out to be a pretty obvious fix:
http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=122727694810370&w=2
I didn't have the English language pack installed. I did this by right-clicking in any text area and selecting "Add dictionaries...". Maybe this will help? |
I followed the instructions above and now spell checking works in firefox but all other apps are still broken. No dictionaries show up in the lists for evolution, gedit, etc. |
Try remerging enchant. |
That fixed it. Thanks. |
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mathfeel
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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| stewie wrote: | | isilia wrote: | | stewie wrote: | | mmm wrote: | I have been without spell checking in Firefox 3 for a few months now, and it turned out to be a pretty obvious fix:
http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=122727694810370&w=2
I didn't have the English language pack installed. I did this by right-clicking in any text area and selecting "Add dictionaries...". Maybe this will help? |
I followed the instructions above and now spell checking works in firefox but all other apps are still broken. No dictionaries show up in the lists for evolution, gedit, etc. |
Try remerging enchant. |
That fixed it. Thanks. |
Not for me, but it did gave me a hint. The trick is to emerge myspell_en. But shouldn't portage be pulling this in when corresponding LINGUAS is set?
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warrenhoward
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject: Me too! |
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Hi,
I just spent the better part of the day trying to get spell checking working with Firefox. It was solved by following the suggestion in this discussion and installing "myspell-en".
Regards,
Warren. |
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b0b0
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:42 am Post subject: |
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| Did Firefox switch to hunspell? I have not had this issue until recently upgrading to firefox-3.0.8. I fixed it by installing the myspell-en pack; maybe this should have been added to the firefox ebuild? |
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