On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:14:54PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> Over the past couple of weeks,  running Fedora  9 on my laptop, I have
> noticed some weird things happening with the red-underline spell
> checker that shows up in Gmail, as seen through FireFox.   Since I use
> the spell checker mostly for catching typos, I have been ignoring
> them.
> 
> Today I opened the Firefox internal URL about:config.  Filtering on
> "spell" I found the entry:
> spellchecker.dictionary;en_ZW
> 
> A few googles later, I discovered that ZW means Zimbabwe.  I changed
> it to en_US and things are much better.  But how did it come to be
> en_ZW in the first place?

Mine is set to en_HK for some reason.  It keeps telling me I'm spelling
"colour" wrongly.

Maybe it uses a random function to determine location? :)

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