FS#1946 : Abiword: Spell checking does not work for non-english languages

Please read this before reporting a bug:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bug_reporting_guidelines

Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in the AUR. Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the Mailing List.

REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!

FS#1946 - Abiword: Spell checking does not work for non-english languages

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Alexander Hunziker (alexthelion) - Thursday, 30 December 2004, 09:04 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 30 December 2004, 22:29 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category	Packages: Current
Status	Closed
Assigned To	dorphell (dorphell)
Architecture	not specified
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version	0.7 Wombat
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

Spell checking with Abiword built against aspell does only work with English texts. I do have aspell-de installed, but Abiword says it can't find the corresponding dictionaries.

The best way, and also the way recommended by the developers, is to build Abiword agains enchant - a spell checking wrapper library. AFAIK, Enchant is proposed to be a freedesktop.org standard.

I did build abiword like this myself and it works like a charm. A PKGBUILD for enchant will be attached to this task.

On a system with enchant installed, Abiword automatically builds with enchant support.