[gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird spell-checker is offering too many languages

[gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird spell-checker is offering too many languages

[Nikos Chantziaras]

The list of spell-check languages offered by Firefox and Thunderbird 
looks like this:

   English (AU)
   English (CA)
   English (GB)
   English (GB-oed)
   English (NZ)
   English (US)
   English (ZA)
   German (DE)
   Greek (GR)

All this English stuff needs to do away, I only want English (US).  Is 
there a way to do that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird spell-checker is offering too many languages

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> The list of spell-check languages offered by Firefox and Thunderbird 
> looks like this:
>
>   English (AU)
>   English (CA)
>   English (GB)
>   English (GB-oed)
>   English (NZ)
>   English (US)
>   English (ZA)
>   German (DE)
>   Greek (GR)
>
> All this English stuff needs to do away, I only want English (US).  Is 
> there a way to do that?
>
>

I have this set in my make.conf.

LINGUAS="en_US en"
LANG="en_US"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"

Do you have something close to this as well?  I can't think of anything 
else at the moment.  Maybe someone else will post a different idea.

Dale

:-)  :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird spell-checker is offering too many languages

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/06/2010 09:58 PM, Dale wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> The list of spell-check languages offered by Firefox and Thunderbird
>> looks like this:
>>
>> English (AU)
>> English (CA)
>> English (GB)
>> English (GB-oed)
>> English (NZ)
>> English (US)
>> English (ZA)
>> German (DE)
>> Greek (GR)
>>
>> All this English stuff needs to do away, I only want English (US). Is
>> there a way to do that?
>>
>>
>
> I have this set in my make.conf.
>
> LINGUAS="en_US en"
> LANG="en_US"
> LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
>
> Do you have something close to this as well? I can't think of anything
> else at the moment. Maybe someone else will post a different idea.

No, that's not it.  I have LINGUAS="en_US en" in my make.conf too.  I 
found out that Firefox now uses hunspell for spell checking.  Maybe that 
has something to do with it.  So I guess the question now should be how 
to tell hunspell to only offer the US-English dictionary.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird spell-checker is offering too many languages

[David Relson]

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:55:18 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> On 10/06/2010 09:58 PM, Dale wrote:
> > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> The list of spell-check languages offered by Firefox and
> >> Thunderbird looks like this:
> >>
> >> English (AU)
> >> English (CA)
> >> English (GB)
> >> English (GB-oed)
> >> English (NZ)
> >> English (US)
> >> English (ZA)
> >> German (DE)
> >> Greek (GR)
> >>
> >> All this English stuff needs to do away, I only want English (US).
> >> Is there a way to do that?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I have this set in my make.conf.
> >
> > LINGUAS="en_US en"
> > LANG="en_US"
> > LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
> >
> > Do you have something close to this as well? I can't think of
> > anything else at the moment. Maybe someone else will post a
> > different idea.
> 
> No, that's not it.  I have LINGUAS="en_US en" in my make.conf too.  I 
> found out that Firefox now uses hunspell for spell checking.  Maybe
> that has something to do with it.  So I guess the question now should
> be how to tell hunspell to only offer the US-English dictionary.
> 

run "eix -e hunspell" to show the languages supported/activated for
hunspell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird spell-checker is offering too many languages

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 07 October 2010 09:50:57 David Relson wrote:

> run "eix -e hunspell" to show the languages supported/activated for
> hunspell

I was interested in this too.

$ eix -e hunspell
[I] app-text/hunspell (1.2.11@03/08/10): Hunspell spell checker - an 
improved replacement for myspell in OOo.

No mention of dictionaries.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird spell-checker is offering too many languages

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 07 October 2010 09:50:57 David Relson wrote:
>
>    
>> run "eix -e hunspell" to show the languages supported/activated for
>> hunspell
>>      
> I was interested in this too.
>
> $ eix -e hunspell
> [I] app-text/hunspell (1.2.11@03/08/10): Hunspell spell checker - an
> improved replacement for myspell in OOo.
>
> No mention of dictionaries.
>
>    
This is what emerge -vp shows here for hunspell:

root@smoker / # emerge -vp hunspell

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] app-text/hunspell-1.2.11  USE="ncurses nls readline" 
LINGUAS="en -af -bg -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -eo -es -et -fo -fr -ga -gl 
-he -hr -hu -id -it -ku -lt -lv -mk -ms -nb -nl -nn -pl -pt -ro -ru -sk 
-sl -sv -sw -tn -uk -zu" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
root@smoker / #


The LINGUAS= setting should be what tells it what language to build.  
You sure you don't have a typo in make.conf or something?

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird spell-checker is offering too many languages

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 07 October 2010 14:32:12 Dale wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 October 2010 09:50:57 David Relson wrote:
> >> run "eix -e hunspell" to show the languages supported/activated
> >> for hunspell
> > 
> > I was interested in this too.
> > 
> > $ eix -e hunspell
> > [I] app-text/hunspell (1.2.11@03/08/10): Hunspell spell checker -
> > an improved replacement for myspell in OOo.
> > 
> > No mention of dictionaries.
> 
> This is what emerge -vp shows here for hunspell:
> 
> root@smoker / # emerge -vp hunspell
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] app-text/hunspell-1.2.11  USE="ncurses nls readline"
> LINGUAS="en -af -bg -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -eo -es -et -fo -fr -ga
> -gl -he -hr -hu -id -it -ku -lt -lv -mk -ms -nb -nl -nn -pl -pt -ro
> -ru -sk -sl -sv -sw -tn -uk -zu" 0 kB

Yes, but that's not what he said.

I get the same as you from the emerge command. It still doesn't help 
distinguish between the several varieties of English though, which was 
the question.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.