Re: Spelling Language

[Leon Stedman <leonukip uwclub net>]

Many thanks, Peter, for very prompt reply.

This change in behaviour (sic) will make balsa much more useful to 
the many who do not use American English.

It would be even better were Balsa to respect the environmental variable 
LANG, but the coding effort required to do this might not be worthwhile.

One feature that Alpine offers is to spell-check each message before 
sending. This might be a feature that could be offered in Balsa.


Leon Stedman
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Peter Bloomfield wrote:

> Hi Leon,
>
> Welcome to the list!
>
> On 08/03/2017 05:42:54 PM Thu, Leon Stedman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I use Balsa spell checking I change the language to English (British) 
> > if I leave the composer it is changed back to English (American).
> >
> > is there some way to make the language change predominant?
> >
> > I am using Balsa 2.5.3 under Fedora 26, and the spell-checker is 
> > enchant/aspell.
>
> Yes, I believe there is. I'll push a patch to git master, and if it survives 
> testing it will be in the next release.
>
> Background: if I recall correctly, and it's quite possible that I don't, 
> saving the chosen language was first implemented when Balsa began using the 
> GtkSpell in-line spell checker, and for technical reasons it didn't work with 
> the internal dialog-based checker. Later rationalization of the code 
> eliminated the technical issue, but save and restore was never extended to 
> builds using the internal checker. I may be missing some issues, but we'll 
> test it in git and, as I mentioned, if it works it will be in the next 
> release.
>
> Thanks for the report!
>
> Peter