Why does the spell checker only check Danish?

War · Guest

Maybe someone can help
I have set all my defaults to English but whenever I open the tools-options-language settings-writing aids the spellchecker is ALWAYS on Danish. When I set it to english UK and close, the spell checker still does not work and when I go back into writing aids, the language is Danish again. I have only just downloaded v1.1.1.

erikanderson3 · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject:

Here's a thought:

Go to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids, and in the "Available language modules" listbox choose OpenOffice.org MySpell SpellChecker" and click Edit. A different dialog should pop up, with a listbox on top marked Language. Drop this down, and you should see a blue checkmark to the left of each spellcheck language you have installed. Selecting a language in this list will show you which components are installed (SpellChecker, Hyphenator, Thesaurus).

If English isn't installed, the spellchecker will likely default to whatever is higher up the list that is installed. Have a look at http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/download_dictionary.html for spellcheck dictionaries in other languages.

Cheers,

Erik

esperantisto · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

You also may need to check dictioonary.lst file in <OOo Home> / share / dict / ooo folder. To enable UK English spellchecker, the file must contain a line "DICT en GB en_GB", and the folder must contain files en_GB.aff and en_GB.dic. In fact, all this should be by default, but you still should check.

War · Guest

I have tried/checked all those things. I tried deleting the Danish spellcheck in the ooo file and all that hapens is that there is now no spell checker. The ticks on teh left of the english modules do not seem to make any difference. I can't even select the US english module.

erikanderson3 · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:01 am Post subject:

Just in case it might shed some light on your symptoms, what is your OS?

Cheers,

Erik

DaveQB · Power User Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Sydney

I just found my problem* was that a Read Only attribute was set on <OOo>/basic/user/script.xlc
That would do it !! Laughing

* couldnt set the default settings to English (Australia), had to reset them manually every OOo open Sad

. But dictionary worked fine.

dkam · Guest

I'm having the exact same problem, but I haven't been able to solve it. What did you do exactly?

BTW, I'm using the Ximian patch set with 1.1.1 on Gentoo.

DaveQB · Power User Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Sydney

All i can say from my experience is check the write permissions on your user files; ones that save settings.

To install the dictionary of choice try the auto pilot autodownloader, that should work as well as manually doing it.

dkam · Guest

Turns out, it was the font. I selected a different font, and away we went. The spell checker worked in English. However, the Danish dictionary was still selected in Writing aids. Weird huh?