Alan Secker wrote:

> Ever since I installed Mandriva 2006 on my office machine, I have been
> unable to get a spell checker to work. Whether it is version 1.5.0.2 (via
> urpmi) or a downloaded version 2.0, Both tell me the British English
> fictionary is not compatible. I tried installing the said dictionary from
> the website and have also followed the MozillaZine instructions. Yet
> nothing seems to work. I have also had this under Spring 2007 but I had to
> leave that version for other reasons and go back to 2006.
>
> Has anyone else had an experience like this?

I have just checked another machine with Mandrva 2007 and 1.5.0.2 and that
handles it O.K. I'm even more baffled but it dosn't appear to be a Mandriva
related issue after all. Sorry.

Alan Secker wrote:

> Ever since I installed Mandriva 2006 on my office machine, I have been
> unable to get a spell checker to work. Whether it is version 1.5.0.2 (via
> urpmi) or a downloaded version 2.0, Both tell me the British English
> fictionary is not compatible. I tried installing the said dictionary from
> the website and have also followed the MozillaZine instructions. Yet
> nothing seems to work. I have also had this under Spring 2007 but I had to
> leave that version for other reasons and go back to 2006.
>
> Has anyone else had an experience like this?

I have further discovered that the 'working' version has the US English
dictionary installed but will also not recognise the British English
dictionary. I will try and install the US dictionary on the problem machine
and add British spellings!

Alan Secker wrote:
> Ever since I installed Mandriva 2006 on my office machine, I have been
> unable to get a spell checker to work. Whether it is version 1.5.0.2 (via
> urpmi) or a downloaded version 2.0, Both tell me the British English
> fictionary is not compatible. I tried installing the said dictionary from
> the website and have also followed the MozillaZine instructions. Yet
> nothing seems to work. I have also had this under Spring 2007 but I had to
> leave that version for other reasons and go back to 2006.
>
> Has anyone else had an experience like this?
>
>
Not here. I installed it under 2006, but have since upgraded to 2007.
It is still running fine, caught a typo on this message ....

Donald

Alan Secker wrote:
> Alan Secker wrote:
>
>> Ever since I installed Mandriva 2006 on my office machine, I have been
>> unable to get a spell checker to work. Whether it is version 1.5.0.2 (via
>> urpmi) or a downloaded version 2.0, Both tell me the British English
>> fictionary is not compatible. I tried installing the said dictionary from
>> the website and have also followed the MozillaZine instructions. Yet
>> nothing seems to work. I have also had this under Spring 2007 but I had to
>> leave that version for other reasons and go back to 2006.
>>
>> Has anyone else had an experience like this?
>
> I have just checked another machine with Mandrva 2007 and 1.5.0.2 and that
> handles it O.K. I'm even more baffled but it dosn't appear to be a Mandriva
> related issue after all. Sorry.
>

If that solve the problem ... IE it is a dictionary problem, you may
wish to try Canadian English. It will be much the same as the British.
We would not want to corrupt the language too much, after all ...

Donald

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:26:26 +0100, Alan Secker wrote:

> Ever since I installed Mandriva 2006 on my office machine, I have been
> unable to get a spell checker to work. Whether it is version 1.5.0.2 (via
> urpmi) or a downloaded version 2.0, Both tell me the British English
> fictionary is not compatible. I tried installing the said dictionary from
> the website and have also followed the MozillaZine instructions. Yet
> nothing seems to work. I have also had this under Spring 2007 but I had to
> leave that version for other reasons and go back to 2006.
>
> Has anyone else had an experience like this?

No. I learned how to spell way back in grade school, and I still remember
how to do it, so I don't need a "spell checker".


--
"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:14:34 -0400, donald tees wrote:

> Alan Secker wrote:
>> Alan Secker wrote:
>>
>>> Ever since I installed Mandriva 2006 on my office machine, I have been
>>> unable to get a spell checker to work. Whether it is version 1.5.0.2 (via
>>> urpmi) or a downloaded version 2.0, Both tell me the British English
>>> fictionary is not compatible. I tried installing the said dictionary from
>>> the website and have also followed the MozillaZine instructions. Yet
>>> nothing seems to work. I have also had this under Spring 2007 but I had to
>>> leave that version for other reasons and go back to 2006.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else had an experience like this?
>>
>> I have just checked another machine with Mandrva 2007 and 1.5.0.2 and that
>> handles it O.K. I'm even more baffled but it dosn't appear to be a Mandriva
>> related issue after all. Sorry.
>>
>
> If that solve the problem ... IE it is a dictionary problem, you may
> wish to try Canadian English. It will be much the same as the British.
> We would not want to corrupt the language too much, after all ...
>
> Donald

I took your advice. Unbelievable! On returning to Thunderbird, I went to
Preferences to select the new dictionary and the only one offered was
English/British. I selected it AND it works! Oh! the mysteries of
computers.

Thanks for a great tip! ?

Alan