Guys, On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:10 AM Wolfgang Lux <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Am 18.03.2020 um 00:37 schrieb Riccardo Mottola via Discussion list for > the GNUstep programming environment <[email protected]>: > > > > Hi steppers! > > > > I notice many of these errors: > > > > 2020-03-18 00:22:39.070 GNUMail[6471:6471] Failed to get the spellserver > > 2020-03-18 00:22:41.078 GNUMail[6471:6471] Language: BritainEnglish > > 2020-03-18 00:22:41.080 GNUMail[6471:6471] Service to start: (null) > > 2020-03-18 00:22:41.082 GNUMail[6471:6471] Port: (null) > > 2020-03-18 00:22:41.083 GNUMail[6471:6471] Failed to contact spell > checker for language 'BritainEnglish' > > 2020-03-18 00:22:41.085 GNUMail[6471:6471] Failed to get the spellserver > > > > > > So, fun, I thought, no dictionaries installed? > > > > GNUstep uses aspell, right? > > > > A quick check with "aspell dict" says I have plenty: > > $ aspell dicts > > en > > en-variant_0 > > en-variant_1 > > en-variant_2 > > en-w_accents > > en-wo_accents > > en_AU > > en_AU-variant_0 > > en_AU-variant_1 > > en_AU-w_accents > > en_AU-wo_accents > > en_CA > > en_CA-variant_0 > > en_CA-variant_1 > > en_CA-w_accents > > en_CA-wo_accents > > en_GB > > en_GB-ise > > en_GB-ise-w_accents > > en_GB-ise-wo_accents > > en_GB-ize > > en_GB-ize-w_accents > > en_GB-ize-wo_accents > > en_GB-variant_0 > > en_GB-variant_1 > > en_GB-w_accents > > en_GB-wo_accents > > en_US > > en_US-variant_0 > > en_US-variant_1 > > en_US-w_accents > > en_US-wo_accents > > > > > > at least most english variants I know and also those I didn't know their > existence of. > > > > So what's going wrong? > > I think you are facing a bit of a hen and egg problem. To determine the > supported languages, the spell checking code has to ask the spell checking > service. But the spell checking code can start the service only from a > supported language. By default the only known supported language is > 'AmericanEnglish'. So, either switch to locale en_US (or C for that > matter), open the spell checker once to get the service going and then > return to locale en_GB (which appears to be what you are using). Or start > the GSSpell service manually in your startup script. > > Wolfgang > > > This is a decent workaround. I wrote the spellcheck service and it's corresponding GUI. I think this is a bug, honestly. It needs to be fixed. I don't know if there is time to do it for the next release, but please open a bug for this. Yours, GC -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/1074015bae2987f2be9ccb0378da415ccc4d4c69?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnustep.org&userId=2790543&signature=1d54f1e6280c676b> - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/245bccb6f21a9f613108411ac777169c1248eb54?url=http%3A%2F%2Fheronsperch.blogspot.com&userId=2790543&signature=7ea15ba45fc187bb> http://ind.ie/phoenix/ <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/385d61e4e63d9dabd7374bf440386709b442388e?url=http%3A%2F%2Find.ie%2Fphoenix%2F&userId=2790543&signature=e4996388e5b05479>
