Re: What am I missing?

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

On 07/30/2008 03:58:36 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 07/30/2008 04:34:20 PM Wed, 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.
> > 
> > Paweł
> 
> Also...I recall seeing something similar from Enchant--a patch dated  
> 2008-04-29 fixed some whining--version 2.3.24 and later contain the
> patch.

I'm running enchant-1.4.2-1.fc9.i386, which appears to be the latest 
stable release. 

I am able to run enchant (in its various guises) standalone with no 
problem. Is there anything about how Balsa uses the library that I 
might be missing?