Problem description: Selecting a non installed language for spell check does not report anything about not installed. It seems to work but it doesn't do anything. It is impossible to find where to obtain and how to install additional languages for spellcheck. Steps to reproduce: 1. tools>language>more dictonaries on line.... 2. ....Searching on the internet shows this problem exist as long as Open Office / libreoffice and some "solutions" don't work either. 3. .... Current behavior: 1 http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center?getCategories=Dictionary Where no languages are found and search for dutch or anything don't come up with anything. Expected behavior: 1 Find a list with all available languages! And a simple instruction how to install it. Operating System: Ubuntu Version: 4.0.2.2 release
Dutch dictionary is bundled and can be enabled during install. Also it should be installed by default if your locale setting is Dutch.
Urmas: I don't know for Ubuntu but Debian by default repositories don't show anything for Dutch language. Andras: any idea?
On Thu, 09 May 2013 13:23:50 +0000 bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64385 > > --- Comment #1 from Urmas <davian818@gmail.com> --- > Dutch dictionary is bundled and can be enabled during install. It can be enabled where and how? Installing does not give any option at all, one can install or not install libreoffice that are the only two options there are. > Also > it should be installed by default if your locale setting is Dutch. I want additional languages for spell checking other then my default locale setting. And so are the thousands of people like me, struggling for 10 years or so with the exact same problem. Where and how does anyone find an additional language? Edmund
You have to install myspell-nl package on Ubuntu.
On Fri, 10 May 2013 12:28:13 +0000 bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64385 > > --- Comment #4 from Andras Timar <timar74@gmail.com> --- > You have to install myspell-nl package on Ubuntu. > OK I in the mean time by coincidence and trying the 20 spell dictionaries, I found that too. But it is still a bug, how do you KNOW which of the 20 dictionaries must be used, why the libreoffice dictionary does not work, where one can find such info and why libreoffice gives no clue when a not installed or not used dictionary is selected. If all that is not stupid enough why the link in libreoffice to more dictionaries on-line leads to nowhere. Edmund
I had missed myspell-nl because "LibreOffice" isn't in the description of the package. I sent an email to the Debian package maintainer, hope I'll get positive feedback.
Can we mark this as NOTOURBUG - it's simply a naming convention done by Canonical for myspell dictionaries. As far as I can tell, nothing we can do about this
Joel: it seems there's also an impact on Debian but perhaps I misinterpret all this. Rene: you might be interested in this bug. Perhaps I'm wrong to ask to myspell-nl package maintainer to update the description to add "LibreOffice" (as I put in comment 6, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64385#c6)
As far as I can tell the directions on Ubuntu's documentation are pretty clear: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice#Language_localization.2C_spell_checking.2C_dictionary.2C_hyphenation.2C_thesaurus.2C_and_help Personally I don't expect the Debian packagers to change the name as the package is for the entire system, not just for LibreOffice. Maybe Debian needs to update it's documentation (if the documentation isn't out there) but not sure how much we can do about this. Maybe there's a wiki somewhere that can be updated (if you have suggestions let's just do it) but I'm going to go ahead and mark this as NOTABUG as anyone (including the reporter) can browse the wiki's and figure out where the best place to put some note saying how to install but again, I think this is a system wide question (as myspell applies to every application not just LibreOffice). It would be similar to LibreOffice giving advice on installing icons, gtk themes, etc... but again, anyone can update the wiki documentation :)