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

[Ralf Mardorf]

I don't know if it makes sense to reply to a bug report by the mailing
list.

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:31:35 +1200, Rolf Turner wrote:
>    Configuration -> Preferences for current account -> Compose ->
>    Spell check dictionaries

or

  Right click on a folder > Properties... > Compose

or in the composer

  Spelling > Options

one might override the other.

FWIW libreoffice depends on hunspell, claws-mail depends on enchant.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi libreoffice-fresh   | grep --color spell
Depends On      : curl>=7.20.0  hunspell>=1.2.8  python>=3.7  libwpd>=0.9.2  libwps  neon>=0.28.6  pango  nspr  libjpeg  libxrandr  libgl  libxslt  redland  hyphen  lpsolve  gcc-libs  sh  graphite  icu  lcms2  poppler>=0.24.0  libvisio  libetonyek  libodfgen  libcdr  libmspub  harfbuzz-icu  nss  clucene  hicolor-icon-theme  desktop-file-utils  shared-mime-info  libpagemaker  libxinerama  libabw  libmwaw  libe-book  libcups  liblangtag  libexttextcat  liborcus  libtommath  libzmf  libatomic_ops  xmlsec  gpgme  libnumbertext  libfreehand  libstaroffice  libepubgen  libqxp  libepoxy  box2d  xdg-utils
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi libreoffice-fresh   | grep enchant
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi claws-mail-gtk3-git | grep --color spell
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi claws-mail-gtk3-git | grep enchant
Depends On      : gtk3  gnutls  startup-notification  enchant  gpgme  libetpan  compface  libsm  dbus-glib
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ 
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ 
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi enchant | grep --color spell
Description     : A wrapper library for generic spell checking
Optional Deps   : aspell: for aspell based spell checking support [installed]
                  hunspell: for hunspell based spell checking support [installed]
                  libvoikko: for libvoikko based spell checking support [installed]
                  hspell: for hspell based spell checking support [installed]
                  nuspell: for nuspell based spell checking support [installed]
Required By     : abiword  claws-mail-gtk3-git  gspell  gtkspell  gtkspell3  webkit2gtk