Re: [Evolution] Spell-checker underlines even the words correctly spelled

[Peter N Spotts <pspotts comcast net>]

On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:34:55 -0500
Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 10:25 -0500, Peter N Spotts wrote:
> > Sorry if I've missed a prior post on this and any subsequent
> > answers, but since upgrading Xubuntu from 8.04 to 8.10, Evolution's
> > email editor consistently underlines all words, not just those
> > incorrectly spelled. And now for the obligatory cliche: It worked
> > just fine under 8.04. 
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this behavior? And the fix?
>
> It's a bug in 2.24.0 that occurs when you have multiple dictionaries
> enabled.  It's already been fixed in 2.24.1.
>
> Matthew Barnes
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Thanks Matthew, and interesting. I'm running 2.24.1 and only have US
English checked as a dictionary preference. I still have the problem.
That could mean that a trip to the bug-reporting arena is in order...

With best regards,

Pete

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