I've found after two installs on other machines (one Ubuntu, one Mint), that I had to do a full reinstall of LibreOffice before I could get the workaround above to correctly get the dictionaries to work. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case above, so some people may not find that necessary, but having the dict-* files in place before doing a reinstall definitely means one can have working dictionaries.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1161675 Title: LibreOffice lacks support for documents' spell-checking in Ubuntu for most languages and dialects Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Fresh install of Raring (because I'm playing with the Beta, but I've noted similar issues before with other builds), en-IE locale. Libreoffice has English dictionaries for: en-AU, en-CA, en-GB, en-US, en-ZA, and no others. Uninstall Libreoffice and install from .deb files. Libreoffice has support for: en-AU, en-BZ, en-CA, en-GB, en-GH, en-IE, en-IN, en-JM, en-MW, en-NA, en-NZ, en-PH, en-TT, en-US, en-ZA & en-ZW. This severely hampers the usefulness of LibreOffice to many English speakers, unless they've installed manually. A workaround can be to mark your document as being in the supported dialect closest to your own and then spell-check it before changing it back. This is imperfect in checking for some dialects, and not as easily done if you are mixing languages (or worse, dialects of English) in the same document. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1161675/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
