Libreoffice was unable to find the Dutch dictionary installed on my system (app-dicts/myspell-nl). Other applications (e.g. kate, kile etc) don't have this problem. This is in my make.conf: L10N="en en-US en-GB nl nl-NL en-NL" Both myspell-nl, hunspell and app-office/libreoffice-l10n with nl USE flag are installed. I had created a post on the forum here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=8386858#8386858 And a helpful user pointed me to the solution, which was to add some symlinks: andrew-gentoo-pc andrew # ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/nl.dic /usr/share/hunspell/nl_NL.dic andrew-gentoo-pc andrew # ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/nl.aff /usr/share/hunspell/nl_NL.aff andrew-gentoo-pc andrew # ln /usr/share/myspell/nl.aff /usr/share/myspell/nl_NL.aff andrew-gentoo-pc andrew # ln /usr/share/myspell/nl.dic /usr/share/myspell/nl_NL.dic andrew-gentoo-pc andrew # ln /usr/share/myspell/th_nl_v2.dat /usr/share/myspell/th_nl_NL_v2.dat andrew-gentoo-pc andrew # ln /usr/share/myspell/th_nl_v2.idx /usr/share/myspell/th_nl_NL_v2.idx It seems like libreoffice wants to have dictionary files in the 'language_region' format. The behaviour of myspell-nl was changed in bug 607080, the argument is made there that the Dutch language is standardized across regions. While this may be true, the fix to this bug report leads to problems with libreoffice, as the dictionary file is no longer named as it expects. I suggest to either revert the change from bug 607080, meaning to change this: src_prepare() { default # Fix regions, bug #607080 mv nl_NL.aff nl.aff || die mv nl_NL.dic nl.dic || die mv hyph_nl_NL.dic hyph_nl.dic || die # remove dutch translated license so it aint installed rm -rf licentie* || die } back to this: src_prepare() { # thesarus has ugly name mv th_nl_v2.dat th_nl_NL_v2.dat || die mv th_nl_v2.idx th_nl_NL_v2.idx || die # remove dutch translated license so it aint installed rm -rf licentie* || die } Or to just add symlinks between the nl and nl_NL files, like I did above. Personally I prefer this solution because it makes it easy to also symlink the regional dictionaries of other regions (e.g. nl_BE) in accordance to the argument made in bug 607080.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a589dc23b0e0179fdf13971881c768c5d24e9da4 commit a589dc23b0e0179fdf13971881c768c5d24e9da4 Author: Wim Muskee <wimmuskee@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2019-11-16 17:36:17 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-11-18 06:14:13 +0000 app-dicts/myspell-nl: add territory locale formatted entries Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/699660 Signed-off-by: Wim Muskee <wimmuskee@gmail.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13675 Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> app-dicts/myspell-nl/myspell-nl-2.10g-r2.ebuild | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
For completeness: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64830
