Re: What am I missing?

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

On 07/30/2008 01:34:20 PM, Pawel Salek wrote:
> On 07/30/2008 09:45:33 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > On 07/30/2008 09:27:28 AM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> > > Le 30.07.2008 17:55:20, Geoffrey Leach a écrit :
> > > >"Spelling" reports "enchant error for language pt_BR" Enchant??
> > >
> > > Lubenchant manage most of the check spelling.
> > >
> > > This is what says Debian description of libenchant pacckage:
> > >
> > > <<
> > > A wrapper library for various spell checker engines
> > > Enchant is a generic spell checking library which uses existing
> > > spell checker engines such as ispell, aspell and myspell as its
> > > backends.
> > >
> > > Enchant steps in to provide uniformity and conformity on top of  
> > these
> > > libraries, and implement certain features that may be lacking in
> any
> > > individual provider library.
> > >
> > > This package contains shared library and program.
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply. Regretably, the Fedora rpm does not specify
> > enchant as a prerequsite, so I did not have it installed. Even more
> > regretably, once I installed enchant (and restarted balsa) it still
> > complains about pt_BR. FWIW, aspell and enchant run fine 
> standalone.
> > My enchant.config says "*:aspell"
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas? And which language is "pt_BR??"
> 
> I believe your problem is not the lack of enchant. What is missing is 
> 
> the language package. Try installing hunspell-pt - I believe it will  
> solve your problem.

Indeed, it does. However, having English spell-checked in Portuguese 
is, if anything, less useful than no spell-check at all :-)

hunspell and hunspell -p en_US both work as expected. setenv DICTIONARY 
en_US and echo en_US > .hunspell_default do not improve balsa'a on the 
problem.