Re: What am I missing?

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

On 08/01/2008 04:14:32 PM, Bruno Miguel wrote:
> On Saturday 02 August 2008 00:08:38 Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > On 08/01/2008 03:07:31 PM, Bruno Miguel wrote:
> > > On Friday 01 August 2008 23:02:19 Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > > > On 07/31/2008 08:18:23 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> > > > > On 07/31/2008 06:05:33 PM Thu, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > > > > [ snip ]
> > > > >
> > > > > > Ah! You have, regretably, missed the point. Balsa is
> > > > > > defaulting to pt_BR. I have been unable to persuade it to
> > > > > > use en_US, which would
> > > > >
> > > > > be
> > > > >
> > > > > > preferable.
> > > > >
> > > > > What version of Balsa?
> > > >
> > > > That would be 2.3.25
> > >
> > > Have you installed the language stuff from your distribuition? I
> > > had a
> > >
> > > similar problem until I installed some language packages; I think
> > > it was Aspell, but I'm not sure. After that, I had available
> > > pt_PT in Balsa.
> >
> > As far as I know, yes. What puzzles me is why Balsa would, in any
> > event, want to use pt_BR, which I understand to be support for
> > Brazilian Portuguese?
> 
> Yes, pt_BR is Brazilian Portuguese. But this distintion will stop in 
> a
> 
> few years.
> 
> When you try to write an email, is the language you want availabe in 
> the spellchecking tool? I just had to select the correct language - 
> after installing the correct packages, of course - and that was it.
> 
> When compiling, did you pass the spell flag?

The complaint about pt_BR comes from the spellchecking tool. Balsa's 
language selection is set to English (American)

Balsa was installed from the Fedora 9 i386 rpm