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[Luke Hoersten <Luke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is still a problem on 11.10.

** Also affects: hundredpapercuts
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Spell checking doesn't allow US English words when using "English"
  language

Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
  Confirmed
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  New
Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “empathy” source package in Lucid:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: empathy

  When I have "English" selected for the spell checking language under
  Edit > Preferences > Spell Checking, US English spellings of words
  (e.g., "favorite", "behavior", and "analyze"), are marked as incorrect
  and their GB English counterparts (e.g., "favourite", "behaviour", and
  "analyse") are suggested instead.

  I make Empathy recognize US English words locally by using gconf-editor to change the relevant entry at the path below from "en" to "en-US" and restarting Empathy.
    /apps/empathy/conversation/spell_checker_languages

  There are two better fixes I can see for this:
  (1) Break out the general "English" into the different dialects, e.g, one entry for "English (GB)", another for "English (US)", another for "English (ZA)", etc.  I believe this to be the best of available options.
  (2) Use the entry "English" as a "composite" option, which would actually add all en-* dialects to the spell checker.

  This could potentially be a problem with other languages with major
  dialects, such as Chinese (zh-cn and zh-tw), but I have not verified
  this.

  It should be noted that my system was installed with US English with
  no other languages or dialects installed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: eccee3ffef08eb96dd59ef8dfc7812c8
  CheckboxSystem: 36acc479c47ece291c12af9d42b8b11e
  Date: Wed Oct  7 18:15:59 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: empathy 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu2
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.40-generic
  SourcePackage: empathy
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64
  XsessionErrors:
   (gnome-settings-daemon:5757): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:5835): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
   (nautilus:5822): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
   (gnome-panel:5821): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 24
   (gnome-panel:5821): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_event: assertion `WIDGET_REALIZED_FOR_EVENT (widget, event)' failed

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