FS#10364 - upgrading enchant breaks pidgin spellcheck

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pete (tam1138) - Tuesday, 06 May 2008, 20:07 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 20:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I upgraded from enchant 1.3.0-1 to 1.4.1-2 (i686) and after the upgrade, every word typed in pidgin is flagged as a misspelling. Downgrading to 1.3.0-1 reverts to the previous behavior of nothing being flagged as a misspelling in pidgin.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 20:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 06:33 GMT
Do you have a myspell or aspell dictionary installed for your locale? I don't see any way of selecting a language for pidgin's spellcheck plugin, but after installing aspell-en (I use en_US as locale), pidgin's spellcheck works fine after restarting pidgin. The old enchant didn't check words when there was no dictionary available, the new one does.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 06:36 GMT
switching spellcheck languages can be done with the switch spellcheck plugin from purple-plugin-pack btw.
Comment by Pete (tam1138) - Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 20:07 GMT
I installed aspell-en and this problem has gone away. Thanks!

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