I looked at this again, since I'd been installing libreoffice from their website while bug 739184 had yet to be fixed.
Copying over the dict-* directories from C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\share\extensions of a Windows partition to /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions and restarting LibreOffice completely fixes this. It would seem that these dictionaries are left out of the Ubuntu package deliberately, perhaps under the belief that aspell or myspell procides sufficient support, which it might do for some dialects (maybe it's even better, but I haven't left my installation in a useless state long enough to do comparisons), but neither supports the range of LibreOffice's own dictionaries (though maybe there's in fact an overlap, I don't know). If it is indeed deliberate, all that's needed to fix this is to stop doing it! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1161675 Title: LibreOffice lacks support for documents' spell-checking in Ubuntu for most languages and dialects To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1161675/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
