http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-819236-start-0.html as mentioned here. To get it, install myspell-de and myspell-en hunspell / openoffice (not bin here) start openoffice writer try e.g. on spell check with de_DE "Maß" maybe marked as wrong suggests "Mass" as correct for de_CH. Anyway in options for spell-checking you will see an unknown dictionary module (I guess it is en_GB-oed) but you will see that no spell-checker for de_CH was found and de_AT won't be listed at all. Now change the filenames in /usr/share/myspell and /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo as well as in the dictionary.lst.de and dictionary.lst files there everything from de_*_frami to de_* (read as de_AT, de_DE, de_CH) Start oowriter again check spell-checker options and you will have spell-checker modules listed for de_AT, de_DE and de_CH, also now "Maß" is no longer wrong wen using de_DE, but when using de_CH it will again suggest "Mass". Reproducible: Always Actual Results: A usable German dictionary depends on some random factors (no idea my old x86 have had same problem, but it has seemed to has disappeared by reinstalling the spell-checking stuff). Today I took a closer look (checked the found spell-checkers) seeing that the problem is still there but for some reasons it seems to use the de_DE dictionary. 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same problem with app-office/lyx (see bug #366567 Comment 6) hunspell -D lists only de_DE_frami, so hunspell -d de_DE oder LC_MESSAGES=de_DE hunspell doen't work. I did a workaround with symlinks, see bug #305725 Comment 2.
This problem should be solved with app-dicts/myspell-de-2012.06.17-r1
(In reply to Michael from comment #2) > This problem should be solved with app-dicts/myspell-de-2012.06.17-r1 Try with that version
