https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115286
Bug ID: 115286
Summary: Cannot change the default language (English US) for
the Spell checker - Spell Checker does not work
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.2.5.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: bfleming...@netscape.net
Description:
When the spellchecker works it’s great! When it doesn’t it is a real downer.
Running Opensuse 43.2 the spell checker in Libreoffice stopped working at some
time in the past. I had auto update turned on and only installed and updated
notified updates. When did it stop working? I don’t know. Why did it stop
working? I dont know. What did I do to try and fix it? I opened up libreoffice,
libreoffice writer and all the other libreoffice apps and in each I went to
Tools/Options/Language Settings/Writing Aids/Available Language Modules and
edited each of the four entries underneath the Language heading, attempting to
change the Language setting from en-us American English to en-au Australian
English. Now I have always been mistafide (sorry my spell checker isn’t
working) why there isn’t a Save button in the presented panel – just a Close.
In the past that didn’t matter because when Close was pressed and all open
panels were closed and then Libreoffice was closed and re-opened spell checker
worked. But no, back to Tools/Options/Language Settings/Writing Aids/Available
Language Modules and the Language is stuck on en-us American English. However,
the spell checker did not work even stuck on en-us American English. This was a
frustrating problem many, many years ago. Then it started to work and then all
English sub-languages (apart from en-us and en-uk) disappeared and then they
came back and were sellectable and the spell checker worked again. This seems
to be a regression.
Anyway, I thought, maybe I’ve done “something” to upset dear Libreoffice so I
deleted it, reinstalled, and still the problem existed. Well, I’m fairly
patient, but a bad speller so I formatted my Opensuse install and did a fresh
install of Tumbleweed 20180119 and libreoffice 6.0.0.2.0+ still doesn’t have a
functioning spellchecker – mis-behaves exactly as above.
The funy thing is, Libreoffice running under W10 hasn’t missed a beat and I
love the spellchecker which picks up Australian towns spelt incorrectly (I.e
Tamin (bad) - Tammin (good)) and all things spelt Australian!
Please don’t ask me to do this or do that or do something else.
First, do an Internet search on “libreoffice spellcheck stuck on en-us” and you
will find multiple reports going back years.
Then have someone do a fresh English install of OpenSuse Tumbleweed 20180118,
using KDE. Check the libreoffice spellchecker and I’m sure the same problem
will be present. I believe it is a regression from long past. Only when a fix
is found or the problem cannot be duplicated – do I need to be contacted.
Steps to Reproduce:
1.See "Description"
2.See suggested method to reproduce in "Description"
3.Possible regression - see "Description"
Actual Results:
Cannot change the default writing aid/spell checker language. spell checker
does not check spelling.
Expected Results:
the writing aid spell checker language should be able to be changed but it is
broken.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
OpenGL enabled: Yes
Additional Info:
See "Description" for a detailed explanation of the problem, the versions of
Libreoffice that I found the problem exists in and the way to duplicate it.
This was a problem many years ago and appears to me to be a regression.
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/57.0
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