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[Bug 997934] Re: Spellcheck does not detect any mis-spelled words on 12.04

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On 2014-03-16T20:11:05+00:00 Ofperkins83 wrote:

Problem description: Having updated to LibreOffice 4.0.1 on Fedora, I
noticed that when I try to spell check a document with the English
(Australia) dictionary, the spell check appears to function but doesn't
do anything. If I were to check a document, it would always say that
there are no errors, but when I manually check the document, there are
clear spelling errors.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open new Writer document and change language to English (Australia)
2. Type something with an obvious spelling error in it
3. Run spellcheck

Current behavior: The spellcheck will return no errors. If necessary it
will show "continue from top" message, but no errors will be found.
(Auto spellcheck also finds no errors.)

Expected behavior: The spellcheck should find the errors in the text and
make correction suggestions.

              
Operating System: Fedora
Version: 4.1.0.4 release

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On 2014-04-13T16:09:43+00:00 thackert wrote:

Hello ofperkins83, *,
I cannot confirm your observation with LO Version: 4.1.6.1 Build-ID: a59ce81388f477fc89db57f0c27f222f31884eb (parallel installed, following the instructions from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel) with Germanophone lang- as well as helppack) nor with LO Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: b7c7bd3de0fdadaf5e4769e0759d68ad17fb7bd0 TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86@45-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2014-04-10_02:05:19 with installed en_US lang- as well as helppack under Debian Testing i686 ... :(

But as I only have learned British English in the past: Would you be so
kind to attach a test document to this bug, please? And/or test it with
a newer version than 4.1.0.4, please?

I have tested it this way:
1. "Tools – Language – For all Text – More..."
2. Selected "English (Australia)" at the dropdowmn menu "Western" below the header"Default language for document"
3. Closed the dialog
4. Entered a short German (my mother tongue) sentence and also the sentence "For colourful people you should use a color without a hidden meaning. (Maybe a really horrible sentence ... ;) )

I get "color" marked as wrong here. Could you confirm, that it is wrong
in Australian English?

BTW: Is your version the one, which is provided with Fedora? If so, I
think it is better to report a bug to their bugtracker and to their
version of LO ... ;)

Sorry for the inconvenience
Thomas.

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On 2014-05-21T03:22:08+00:00 Finn Thain wrote:


(In reply to comment #1)
> Hello ofperkins83, *,
> I cannot confirm your observation...

I can confirm the bug. The latest stable Mac OS X build is affected:
Version: 4.1.6.2
Build ID: 40ff705089...

> 
> But as I only have learned British English in the past: Would you be so kind
> to attach a test document to this bug, please?

You can reproduce the problem by creating a new document and typing some
garbage. The spell checker can find no problem and it always reports
"Spell check complete."

The spell checker behaves exactly the same when you change the document
language to "None" as when you change it to "English (Australian)".

> I get "color" marked as wrong here. Could you confirm, that it is wrong in
> Australian English?

Australian English is the same as British English (ignoring idioms).
"Color" is the U.S. spelling. In Australia and the U.K. the spelling is
"colour".

So one workaround is to switch the default language to English (U.K.) in
settings. But changing the default may not help for documents already
saved with language "English (Australian)".

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On 2014-05-22T18:25:07+00:00 Barta-c wrote:

has situation improved in 4.2.x?

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On 2014-05-26T07:41:39+00:00 Finn Thain wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)
> has situation improved in 4.2.x?

We had to abandon 4.2 due to interoperability issues with Microsoft
Office.

I can't speak for the original reporter of this bug on Fedora, but I
think in my case this is partly user error.

I did some more research (that is, I actually RTFM) and the problem is
that no dictionary is present for the default language, i.e. English
(Australia).

By reading the manual, I discovered that a peculiar tick symbol having
the letters ABC would indicate the presence of a dictionary. This
appears to be a user interface failure. I doubt that any readily
understood symbol conveys "no dictionary present" so why not just put
the words there instead?

I tried to install an English (Australian) dictionary using the Tools ->
Language -> More Dictionaries Online command. No additional English
dictionaries were available from extensions.libreoffice.org for 4.1.

So we will keep using the English (UK) language default as a workaround.

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On 2014-06-15T23:32:53+00:00 Ofperkins83 wrote:

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> I can't speak for the original reporter of this bug on Fedora, but I think
> in my case this is partly user error.
> 
> I did some more research (that is, I actually RTFM) and the problem is that
> no dictionary is present for the default language, i.e. English (Australia).
> 
> By reading the manual, I discovered that a peculiar tick symbol having the
> letters ABC would indicate the presence of a dictionary. This appears to be
> a user interface failure. I doubt that any readily understood symbol conveys
> "no dictionary present" so why not just put the words there instead?

This is absolutely right. I did not realise that the appropriate
dictionary was not installed. I found the appropriate language package
on the Fedora repos (I don't remember what it was called) and was able
to install it. The spellcheck worked well after that. But I do agree -
at the very least, when the spellcheck is run with a language that has
no spellcheck dictionary, I think it should return and say "no
dictionary installed" rather than just "spellcheck complete".

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On 2015-01-02T06:07:03+00:00 Qubit wrote:

*** Bug 81921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/997934/comments/21

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On 2015-01-05T05:47:27+00:00 JBF wrote:

*** Bug 81569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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** Changed in: df-libreoffice
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: df-libreoffice
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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Title:
  Spellcheck does not detect any mis-spelled words on 12.04

Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  Confirmed
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This has been the case since Beta 2.

  To reproduce:

  1) Type out a load of rubbish on the keyboard as well as a few correctly spelled words. I used "vmw;qbjk aoeuasnth aoeu house in the street"
  2) Press F7 to initiate the spell check.

  Actual Result: The spell check notifies the user of completion without any recognition of errors.
  Expected Result: The spell check should highlight each misspelled word and offer alternatives.

  WORKAROUND: Open the dash and run Language Support
  2) Under the 'Language' tab, choose another variant of English and drag it above the US English so it takes precedence.
  3) Click "Apply System-wide" and log out.

  On logging back in, spell check will work.

  Not reproducible in Xubuntu 32-bit.

  lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  Release:	12.04

  apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
  libreoffice-writer:
    Installed: 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: libreoffice-writer 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri May 11 08:53:51 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: libreoffice
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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