to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 29 lines --] > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:25:06PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK > > English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my > > browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong. > > So it disappeared from your browser, not from the world. > > Phew. > > Browsers sometimes want you to think they're the world, but this is > a sleazy trick by the ad industry. Don't believe them. > > > How did that happen? I'm sure I used to have the UK English > > dictionaries installed. More to the point what do I need to do to get > > UK English back? :-) > > Perhaps this is a dark plot between Elon M and Nigel F :-) > > On a more serious note: browsers bring their own internationalisation > packages. For the Debian Firefox ESR, they look somewhat like > > firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb > > (Google's abomination is left as an exercise for the reader). > I don't think that's my problem for two reasons: 1 - I don't use Firefox and 2 - The British English dictionary is missing from /usr/share/dict, all I have is usr/share/dict/american-english.
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