On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:32:11PM -0700 or thereabouts, Brian Nelson wrote: > Steve Å <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<snip> Hi Brian; > > Over the past few weeks, (I think it was when Sarge became Stable) an > > update must have changed my default -- I'm now spell checking for > > American English. > > By default, aspell chooses the dictionary variant based on the > LC_MESSAGES variable, and if that's not set, LANG. A setting of "en_GB" > would be appropriate for you. Aha ! I thought locale should be relevant. I asked this question earlier on the list (different thread), and the single response was that it wasn't necessary for the LC_MESSAGES option to be anything but POSIX. I didn't think that seemed right. How does one set the LC_MESSAGES variable. dpkg-reconfigure locales doesn't do it. Is this an environment setting ? I can fix this temporary by issuing '$ export environment LC_All=en_CA' or en_GB, but that isn't sticky after the bash session is closed. > Otherwise, you can specify the dictionary directly with: > > aspell -l en_GB check [...] Isn't this to check messages manually ? I generally use it from within mutt/slrn. > Also see the manual section: > > 5.2 How Aspell Selects an Appropriate Dictionary Yeah, I had discovered this on my own. However I can't seem to get the command syntax right. It's really nice when man pages give examples of each syntax usage. -- Steve A. ----------------------------------------------- Monday Jul 25 2005 10:40:01 AM EDT ----------------------------------------------- Your lover will never wish to leave you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
