On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:14:50AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > * Landry Breuil <[email protected]> [2013-09-18 15:07:54 +0200]: > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:25:49PM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > > > I'm using 5.4 current - Sep 17th snapshot. I've got Firefox 23.0 > > > installed and the en_GB mozilla language pack. However, when typing in > > > the browser it doesn't recognise any words at all. The correct dictionary > > > is installed so i'm not sure what's wrong. Of course, there is an option > > > to install a language pack as an add-on to firefox, but as i've installed > > > it as a package/port I shouldn't need to do that. > > > > > > Has anyone else noticed this? > > > > It's been brought to my attention, but i've never used or tried > > spellchecking, so i'm out of ideas to debug this. I suspect this is > > related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429023 and the > > fact that we still have > > www/mozilla-firefox/patches/patch-extensions_spellcheck_hunspell_src_mozHunspell_cpp, > > which ought to be replaced by a prefs.js patch, but i never found the > > time to do the change & properly test it. What if you tweak about:config > > and set spellchecker.dictonary_path to /usr/local/share/mozilla-dicts ? > > > > i'd definitely welcome a 'spell checker' section in > > mozilla-firefox/pkg/README from someone knowing how it works and how to > > configure it, in the way it is done for langpacks.. > > > > Landry > > Hi Landry, i've had a look: there is only "spellchecker.dictionary"; no > "spellchecker.dictionary_path". The current setting for the former is : > > "user set" under the "status" column, "string" under the "Type" column and > "en-GB" under the "Value" column. > > Do you want me to add something to test it further?
Yes, it's a new setting added by the patch in bug 429023, and there's not necessarly a default value, so you have to add it as a new setting. Landry
