On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 15:46:55 +0200 Rene Engelhard <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 03:28:56PM +0200, José Luis González wrote: > > In writer, after installing the british language pack and with spanish > > and american language packs installed, the spell checker only works in > > You say you installed "the british language pack" and the > "american language packs" (whcih packs? there's only one). You didn't > say you installed the actual dictionaries. Well I only installed the british language pack. The american was installed, which is what I said. > The package description clearly says the dictionaries are NOT included > in -l10n-* The dictionaries were already installed (myspell-en-gb, hunspell-en-gb). > > spanish and Tools->Language->All text doesn't show languages other than > > Spanish. I understand English should also be shown. > > That option does not do what you expect it to do. It *guesses* the text. Interestingly my document was written in English and it didn't guess English, plus it showed Spanish instead. Probably because Spanish was set as the language of the text. > I tested with a English LO were I only have English (USA) as a choice. Wrote > some random german text ("Das ist ein Auto" - "This is a car") and > Tools->Language->All text shows me German (Germany) > > ii hunspell-de-de 20131206-5 > all German dictionary for hunspell > ii hunspell-en-us 20070829-6 > all English_american dictionary for hunspell > > I guess you want to look at Format->Character to hardcode the language I didn't know that option. Thanks. > and/or check whether they appear in > Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids -> Edit.. They don't appear there. Only the modules and the standard, technical and IgnoreAllList user dictionaries. > > User interface is in Spanish, but I believe this should have nothing to > > do. > > Then it probably defaults to Spanish. And if you added the locale info > (which reportbug would have provided...) I'd bet it's also set to Spanish.. Indeed, it is es_ES.UTF-8. > What if you install the actual dictionaries? (hunspell-*)? They were installed. As I said before, the problem was the language of the text was set as Spanish. Until I set it to British the British dictionary didn't appear in the menu, together with Spanish.