2008/8/14 Ted Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am running Vista SP1 (home premium) and installed Pidgin 2.4.3. > When I type into my message windows, misspelled words do not > highlight. > > > When the application installed, it looks like it correctly installed aspell > in the proper location (C:\Program Files\Aspell), and the dir has > the accompanying bin dir and other file system structure. > > Under Preferences --> Conversations I have Highlight misspelled words > checked. These same settings work correctly on my WinXP machine. > > I've even gone and downloaded aspell and installed that. I did some > googling > and found an article from somebody that said my aspell.exe needed to be in > my path. I set that in the env and rebooted (mapping C:\Program > Files\Aspell\bin; > in the path). > > What else can I check to correct this issue?
You also need to install the Aspell dictionary for the language in which pidgin is running. The first couple lines of the debug log (http://d.pidgin.im/wiki/TipsForBugReports) when pidgin starts up will tell you which language it is running in. -D _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
