> Well I just brought it up with the command
> LC_ALL=de_DE abiword
> and it thinks "Dinkel" isn't spelt right - in fact it doesn't recognize
> Hafer
> the words I type! The menus are in German but it's spellchecking
> English.
Ok,
Spell-checking is started up using your DocumentLocale preference item, which
for you seems to be en-US. If you want to change this, try setting
LANG=de_DE ./abiword and you'll get german. Alternatively, use the language
dialog to change the language of certain words.
Dom