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[Nikolay Shtinkov <346856@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This bug is severe for all users of the Bulgarian language, since it
makes impossible the use of spell checking in either OpenOffice or in
all other GNOME/KDE applications (Gedit, KWrite, Evolution, Pidgin,
Empathy at least are affected). The bug is not Ubuntu-specific, I have
observed it in Mandriva 2010.1 and know that Debian users have
encountered it as well.

Thanks for the fix, I believe converting myspell dictionaries to utf-8
encoding will be the best fix overall.

Meanwhile, I propose here another fix that can also be used by those who
don't have root permissions (or don't want to use them). The solution is
to direct enchant to use aspell for Bulgarian. Since most Gnome and KDE
applications use enchant for spell checking, this effectively fixes the
problem, leaving the myspell dictionaries for the exclusive use of
Openoffice, Mozilla and all those who understand the 'microsoft-cp1251'
encoding setting in bg_BG.aff. Note that enchant uses myspell by
default, at least in the distributions I have mentioned, however it
doesn't work because it expects the encoding description to be 'cp1251'.

Here is the fix with root permissions: modify the file
/usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering, adding the following two lines at
the end

bg:aspell
bg_BG:aspell

Without root permissions: make a file enchant.ordering in
$HOME/.enchant/ containing only the above two lines.

Here is my file /usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering (Mandriva 2010.1)
with the above modifications

*:myspell,aspell,ispell
fi:voikko,ispell,myspell,aspell
fi_FI:voikko,ispell,myspell,aspell
he:hspell,myspell
he_IL:hspell,myspell
yi:uspell
tr:zemberek
tr_TR:zemberek
bg:aspell
bg_BG:aspell

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Bulgarian spell checking is not working at all!!!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346856
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