Every time I start app-office/kword-1.5.2 the following error pops up: ERROR: No language dictionaries for the language : en_US
Please look up, if the spell checker you have configured in controlcenter -> kde components -> spelling verification matches with what you have installed. Aside of the spell checker engine you need also the corresponding dictionary (one of app-dicts/*) installed.
Control Center lists: Dictionary: ISpell Default Client: International Ispell There are no other options listed. Anyway... ispell isn't installed. Nor are any other app-dicts/*. No installed package on my system seems to depend on them either. Why doesn't koffice depend on a spell checker when it needs one?
Well, the problem is not a missing dependency. While we could add the usual workaroud for missing use dependency support if ! [[ build_with_use kdelibs spell ]] ; then ... to the ebuild, this wouldn't cut it, since kspell2 (the KDE component) allows you to select spell checkers you don't have installed and KWord apparently allows you to select dictionaries you don't have installed. Moreso the supported spell checking engines are antiquated (no hunspell, no myspell) and the included enchant doesn't support current ispell dicionaries (bug 132433). In short: kspell2 needs an overhaul, if not a complete rewrite and if this happens, then soonest with KDE 4. The current status is anything else than pleasable, but we I don't see that we can do anything substantial about it.
(In reply to comment #3) > In short: kspell2 needs an overhaul, if not a complete rewrite and if this > happens, then soonest with KDE 4. The current status is anything else than > pleasable, but we I don't see that we can do anything substantial about it. As none of us seem to have a better solution, I'm closing this as an upstream issue.
Even after installing aspell with some dictionaries, no matter how I configure the spell checking component in the KDE Control Center, KWord still displays the message "ERROR: No language dictionaries for the language : en_US". It always displays "en_US" no matter the language I chose in the Control Center. In KWord settings under "Spelling" the "Default language" combo box only has one option: "en_US"... Using KWord 1.6.3 and KDE 3.5.9. So looking further into the matter, I managed to work around the problem. To keep it short, kdelibs needs to be built with USE=spell. Therefore I recommend adding "built_with_use kde-base/kdelibs spell" or something like that to the KWord ebuilds.
See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136044
The fix is in the repository for a while now, see bug 202627.
(In reply to comment #7) > The fix is in the repository for a while now, see bug 202627. > Well, at least that definately hides the real problem from the end-user quite well. :)
(In reply to comment #8) > Well, at least that definately hides the real problem from the end-user quite > well. :) I can't and won't deny that. ;)
