Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
>> something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
>> Firefox 3 this no longer happens.
>>
>> I've looked at USE flags for mozilla-firefox and xulrunner and don't
>> see anything that indicates aspell or similar.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
>
> In Epiphany at least I was able to enable it with the following
> about:config options:
>
> spellchecker.dictionary = "en_US"
> layout.spellcheckDefault = 2
>
> You may want to specify 1 instead of 2 if you only want spellchecking in
> <textarea>s

Interesting.  Spelling has been working here just fine as in "it just
works", but I checked my settings, and I had
spellchecker.dictionary = "en-US"
with a hyphen instead of underscore. It said "user set" but I didn't
do it. Significant?

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD