[gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail

[gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail

[Daniel D Jones]

Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the bottom 
of Composer shows "Spellcheck: on."  Manually selecting Tools/Spelling shows 
the message "Spell check complete."  But no mispelled words are marked, 
including nonsense strings like "lakjdfh."

ispell is installed.  I can go to a command line and run the ispell program, 
which allows you to manually enter words.  Correctly spelled English words get 
a response of "OK."  MIsspelled words get a  response of "Not Found."  That 
seems to indicate that ispell is installed, the English dictionary is 
installed, and all is functioning normally.

Anyone have a clue why it's not working in Kmail Composer?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail

[Stroller]

On 24 Dec 2009, at 22:16, Daniel D Jones wrote:

> Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the bottom 
> of Composer shows "Spellcheck: on."  Manually selecting Tools/Spelling shows 
> the message "Spell check complete."  But no mispelled words are marked, 
> including nonsense strings like "lakjdfh."

It's been a long time since I used KDE / Kmail, at least since I did so seriously. But I seem to recall there is an option in the preferences to set the path to the spell-checker. This may be changes to "/usr/bin/aspell", to ispell or whatever. I would not be surprised if there is at least one other alternate spell-checker by now - maybe ispell is no longer the default? This preference may be centralised in the main KControl options panel, rather than in the Kmail-specific options, assuming I am recalling its existence correctly.

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 25 December 2009 02:36:08 Stroller wrote:
> On 24 Dec 2009, at 22:16, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> > Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the
> > bottom of Composer shows "Spellcheck: on."  Manually selecting
> > Tools/Spelling shows the message "Spell check complete."  But no
> > mispelled words are marked, including nonsense strings like "lakjdfh."
> 
> It's been a long time since I used KDE / Kmail, at least since I did so
>  seriously. But I seem to recall there is an option in the preferences to
>  set the path to the spell-checker. This may be changes to
>  "/usr/bin/aspell", to ispell or whatever. I would not be surprised if
>  there is at least one other alternate spell-checker by now - maybe ispell
>  is no longer the default? This preference may be centralised in the main
>  KControl options panel, rather than in the Kmail-specific options,
>  assuming I am recalling its existence correctly.


Somewhere in System Settings there is an option to set the global language for 
all KDE apps.

This has caught me out before 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail - solved

[Daniel D Jones]

On Thursday 24 December 2009 17:16:12 Daniel D Jones wrote:
> Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the
>  bottom of Composer shows "Spellcheck: on."  Manually selecting
>  Tools/Spelling shows the message "Spell check complete."  But no mispelled
>  words are marked, including nonsense strings like "lakjdfh."
> 
> ispell is installed.  I can go to a command line and run the ispell
>  program, which allows you to manually enter words.  Correctly spelled
>  English words get a response of "OK."  MIsspelled words get a  response of
>  "Not Found."  That seems to indicate that ispell is installed, the English
>  dictionary is installed, and all is functioning normally.
> 
> Anyone have a clue why it's not working in Kmail Composer?
> 

Enabling the "spell" euse flag and recompiling fixed the issue.

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