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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Mon Feb 1 10:42:22 +0000 2010 ------- Thank you mechtilde for enquiring. The plain 'vanilla' US English [USE] oo installation includes spell-check and grammar and thesaurus data files so files can be checked for spelling etc. The USE data also happen to contain British English [BE] versions. BE is not a separate dic/gram/thes pack. It's not the localisation. I think USE versions have BE as well - English (UK) is an installed dic/gram/thes language. So If you change a wordpro paragraph or section into English (UK) then it will be checked against BE. The problem is this: the thesaurus becomes unavailable - in some but not all packages, it seems - when the para/section is in English (UK). Setting it back to US re-enables the USE thesaurus This is despite the fact that BE is part of the USE thesaurus. I could concede that this could be a dictionary issue or that fault may lie with careless or unwitting packagers but at the same time it looks as if many packagers fall into the same trap and it's been going on for years over a number of versions. End-users have had to deal with a very persistent obstacle to BE take-up. I do not know what is required to make packages language correct. I'm not sure why the BE thesaurus from http://brit-thesaurus.sourceforge.net/ could not be included in a discrete BE dic/gram/thes pack. I'd like to help with a new BE pack if it's required and have a few other usability suggestions but insider reaction is just too scary.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
