[Users] [Bug 4528] New: Claws defaults to Finnish spelling dictionary, and gives no options to change it

[Rolf Turner]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 04:01:41 +0000
noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk wrote:

> https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4528
> 
>             Bug ID: 4528
>            Summary: Claws defaults to Finnish spelling dictionary, and
>                     gives no options to change it
>            Product: Claws Mail
>            Version: 4.0.0
>           Hardware: PC
>                 OS: Linux
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: major
>           Priority: P3
>          Component: UI/Compose Window/Spell Checker
>           Assignee: users at lists.claws-mail.org
>           Reporter: kingofthebears at hotmail.com
> 
> Created attachment 2245
>   -->
> https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2245&action=edit
> Preferences only allow 'fi' dictionary, email compose shows it IS
> Finnish
> 
> OpenSuse Tumbleweed.  The last version on Tumbleweed, 3.18,
> introduced this problem, hoped 4.0.0 would fix it but it did not.
> 
> All compositions show virtually all spellings are in error, red.
> Preferences shows "fi" for dictionary, no other options; guessed it
> was "Finnish".
> 
> Created English phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
> translated to Finnish, all words spelled correctly in Finnish in
> compose, ergo, it truly is a Finnish dictionary buried somewhere on
> the system.
> 
> Contacted Paul ... he said Claws uses hunspell.  Had those libraries
> installed (Libreoffice spelling always worked fine) but not hunspell
> UI - installed, no difference.
> 
> Only dictionary installed that I am able to find for hunspell is
> English:
> 
> art at philadelphia:/usr/share/hunspell> l
> total 544
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3090 May 27 10:01 en_US.aff
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 551260 May 27 10:01 en_US.dic
> 
> I can understand some mis-configuration for the dictionary, but I
> don't understand why I cannot change it to an installed English
> dictionary for hunspell.  I did not find help for this problem in
> clawsker.
> 
> Thank you!
> 

I'm probably out of my depth here, and if I'm missing the point then
just ignore me, but have you looked at

    Configuration -> Preferences for current account -> Compose ->
    Spell check dictionaries

???

I have mine set to en_AU.

I don't see any "fi" amongst the dictionary options, but, so I'm
probably misunderstanding your problem.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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