This also affects me. I have the thunderbird-locale-en-gb and myspell-
en-gb packages installed. Thunderbird shows the language pack correctly
installed under 'Tools > Add-ons > Languages'. However, I am only able
to select the United States English dictionary when composing email.
Current package versions (Lucid):
thunderbird: 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
thunderbird-locale-en-gb: 1:3.0-0ubuntu2
myspell-en-gb: 1:3.2.0-2ubuntu2
This problem is caused by Thunderbird not correctly linking the myspell
dictionaries into '/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0.4/dictionaries/'. I believe
there are two possible solutions to this problem:
1) Link Thunderbird's dictionaries directory to the myspell dictionaries
directory. This is the solution currently used by Firefox:
'/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0.4/dictionaries -> ../../share/myspell/dicts'
c.f. '/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.3/dictionaries -> ../../share/myspell/dicts'.
2) Link the individual dictionaries at the thunderbird-locale level. This
would probably entail making the locale package dependant on the appropriate
myspell dictionary pack, e.g.:
thunderbird-locale-en-gb:
Depends: myspell-en-gb
'/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0.4/dictionaries/en-GB.dic ->
../../../share/myspell/dicts/en-GB.dic'
'/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0.4/dictionaries/en-GB.aff ->
../../../share/myspell/dicts/en-GB.aff'.
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[PPA] Thunderbird 3 Shows only English dictionary in Spell menu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509248
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