On 19 August 2013 02:03, Bill Case <billli...@rogers.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 23:45 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > > On 18 August 2013 16:58, Heinz Diehl <h...@fritha.org> wrote: > > > On 18.08.2013, Peter Gueckel wrote: > > > > > >> In KDE settings, you can set the spellcheck language to Canadian and > > >> the keyboard to English(US). Libreoffice and Firefox have a Canadian > > >> English option. I don't think these are dedicated dictionaries for > > >> Canadian spelling > > > > > > As far as I know, Libreoffice uses aspell for > > > spell-checking. Currently, there's no canadian aspell lib. > > > > > > > By the way, for general spellcheck (e.g. thunderbird, kwrite) I think > > hunspell-en is what you'd need, it seems hunspell libraries replace > > aspell on recent Fedora (e.g. I had to add hunspell-en-GB, en-US is > > default, the other English libraries are collected in plain en). > > Though Libreoffice writer here seems to offer Canadian and other > > English variants without that installed. > > > > -- > > imalone > > http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk > > FYI, I got LibreOffice to spell check Canadian English by installing > every hunspell-eng package I could find in the Fedora repo. I am not > sure which is responsible. I then selected English(Canada) in spelling > in LibreOffice options. It looks like I now have everything working and > spell checking correctly. I don't think there is a specific Canadian > English dictionary in aspell or hunspell but some programming that > identifies Canadian spellings using both UK and US dictionaries. > >
There is a separate en_CA dictionary: $ rpm -ql hunspell-en | grep CA /usr/share/doc/hunspell-en-0.20121024/README_en_CA.txt /usr/share/myspell/en_CA.aff /usr/share/myspell/en_CA.dic -- Ahmad Samir
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