Spell checking broken when dictionary missing

[dwaynebailey]

If you have the correct dictionary installed then spell checking automagic detection seems to work very well. However if its missing then things seem to go wrong.

Try this: 1) Ensure hunspell-nl is not installed 2) virtaal nl.po 3) Some entries are marked as spell checking errors, not sure how it works that out but it looks rather strange.

What I think should happen here:

• We shouldn't be doing spell checking at all if there is no spell checker

Some other observations:

• The gtkspell dialog offers an entry for selecting a language. This is certainly confusing when we don't have a spell checker installed for the language. I wonder if there is some way for us to hide this.
• I'm not sure if we should convey to the user that we don't have a spell checker for their language.

[friedelwolff]

This is a feature/bug of gtkspell. If you select a language which it doesn't have installed, I think it falls back to your locale's dictionary. The only way around this that I see, is to import enchant (assuming that gtkspell only works with enchant, which will become increasingly true), and to check if a checker is available before we ask gtkspell for it. If not, we should just not enable spell checking.

[dwaynebailey]

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2183129&group_id=7896&atid=357896

Is a feature request for this feature

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7310

Seems to highlight the problem as Friedel outlines. Also the mailing list suggests querying enchant to see if the language is in the provided dics again as Friedel suggests.

[walterl]

Fixed in revision 10193.