Spell checker

[josephmo]

Fedora 10 Preview Edition

I seem to have a non-English speller checker active. When I am in Mozilla, and I am typing text (like this forum), all the words are underlined in red, as if they are misspelled. Where do I check to make sure I have the US English spell checker activated?

[pwca]

Who knows. I keep setting the spell checker and the default language to english U.K. but for some whacked out reason it's setting itself to New Zealand. Not that this really surprises me since Wales has decided to speak only Welsh (finally) and Scotland is in the process of a forced Welsh-like revival of Scots-Gaelic nationwide. If the Scotish experience follows the Welsh one then they will most likely succeed sometime 30 years from now. As for England proper... nobodies spoken English in England since the '60's. It's an immigrant / political correctness gone mad thing where you become English but don't learn the language, culture, politics, etc... for to do so is tantamount to racism. Speaking of which anyone seen the latest non-sense coming from the chattering class? That to refer to or call someone "British" is now a racial epithet no different than using the "n" word. Yeah.. I was/still am LMAO over that one.

[josephmo]

Who knows. I keep setting the spell checker and the default language to english U.K. but for some whacked out reason it's setting itself to New Zealand. Not that this really surprises me since Wales has decided to speak only Welsh (finally) and Scotland is in the process of a forced Welsh-like revival of Scots-Gaelic nationwide. If the Scotish experience follows the Welsh one then they will most likely succeed sometime 30 years from now. As for England proper... nobodies spoken English in England since the '60's. It's an immigrant / political correctness gone mad thing where you become English but don't learn the language, culture, politics, etc... for to do so is tantamount to racism. Speaking of which anyone seen the latest non-sense coming from the chattering class? That to refer to or call someone "British" is now a racial epithet no different than using the "n" word. Yeah.. I was/still am LMAO over that one.

Thank you for that perspective, but out here in the "Colonies", I am still having an issue with the speller checker settings.

[pwca]

Thank you for that perspective, but out here in the "Colonies", I am still having an issue with the speller checker settings.

Er.. me to (e.g. being in a colony (former) and having a spell checker problem).

I just thought I would provide some humor to lighten the tension. Whilst we both wait for the great spell checker G-d to descend from heaven with his/her wisdom on the matter.

[adrianx]

In Firefox, right click anywhere in a text box or input field. There should be a "Languages >" entry on the pop-up menu. From there you should be able to select your preferred dictionary, or add a new dictionary.

I use en_ZA, but I see that there are en_GB and en_US options. I have a fresh install of F10 preview - no updates, and I haven't done anything special to Firefox yet.

Hope it helps.

[marcrblevins]

I think you need hunspell packages for Firefox/Thunderbird.

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/07/thunderbird-gets-a-new-spell-checker-firefox-may-follow/

Try:

yum search hunspell

Select your proper language.

[josephmo]

In Firefox, right click anywhere in a text box or input field. There should be a "Languages >" entry on the pop-up menu. From there you should be able to select your preferred dictionary, or add a new dictionary.

I use en_ZA, but I see that there are en_GB and en_US options. I have a fresh install of F10 preview - no updates, and I haven't done anything special to Firefox yet.

Hope it helps.

It worked. This is odd because I had set this to the en_US under Edit-->Preferences.Languages, but it looks like something else modified it to something in the Afrikaner category.

[adrianx]

I often make that mistake. Edit > Prefs. > Content > Languages is usually the first place that I go to, but I think its purpose is to set your preferred language for web pages that are available in more than one language.

P.S. Useless info.: af_ZA (Afrikaans) is the other dictionary that I use..

[pwca]

Skulking about trying to solve this because my interests been piqued. I thought of Firefox's about:config.

Open a tab and type in the URL bar:

about:config

In the Filter bar type:

dict

The list in the pane underneath will filter to just two entries:

browser.dictionary.download.url[/url]

spellchecker.dictionary

By right-clicking on the value column for spellchecker.dictionary you can select modify and change it whatever code you desire.

The dictionaries can be found here: Firefox Dictionaries (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3)

I suppose you might have to do something with the value column for browser.dictionary.download.url but what I don't know yet.

Oh, as an aside... you should backup the file:

~/.mozilla/firefox/********.default/pref.js

to somewhere safe on a regular basis so that if you should ever have to re-install Firefox or your OS then all your Firefox settings can be brought back simply by dumping/overwriting the same file with your old one in the new install.

Same thing goes for your bookmarks... same directory but file name is: bookmarks.html (or something like that anyway).