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.


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