kde-base/kdelibs pulls app-text/enchant when USE="spell" is used, which itself pulls app-text/hunspell. When using another locale than English, the spell checking does not work, as a proper myspell dictionary has to be installed for it. I think this should be done by kde-base/kde-l10n. It should also have a "spell" USE flag and than pull app-dicts/myspell-* according to the chosen locale. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
actually it's hunspell that should be pulling a myspell dictionary.
And to make this happen we need arm and sh coverage on myspell- dicts... Bug filled.
*** Bug 263014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This issue is fixed in hunspell-1.2.9.