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[Jon Hanna <1161675@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've found after two installs on other machines (one Ubuntu, one Mint),
that I had to do a full reinstall of LibreOffice before I could get the
workaround above to correctly get the dictionaries to work. I'm pretty
sure that wasn't the case above, so some people may not find that
necessary, but having the dict-* files in place before doing a reinstall
definitely means one can have working dictionaries.

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Title:
  LibreOffice lacks support for documents' spell-checking in Ubuntu for
  most languages and dialects

Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Fresh install of Raring (because I'm playing with the Beta, but I've
  noted similar issues before with other builds), en-IE locale.
  Libreoffice has English dictionaries for: en-AU, en-CA, en-GB, en-US,
  en-ZA, and no others.

  Uninstall Libreoffice and install from .deb files. Libreoffice has
  support for: en-AU, en-BZ, en-CA, en-GB, en-GH, en-IE, en-IN, en-JM,
  en-MW, en-NA, en-NZ, en-PH, en-TT, en-US, en-ZA & en-ZW.

  This severely hampers the usefulness of LibreOffice to many English
  speakers, unless they've installed manually.

  A workaround can be to mark your document as being in the supported
  dialect closest to your own and then spell-check it before changing it
  back. This is imperfect in checking for some dialects, and not as
  easily done if you are mixing languages (or worse, dialects of
  English) in the same document.

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