Bug 91667 – app-office/lyx - Portuguese language misspelled in Lyx document settings causing spellchecker to fail

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description NR 2005-05-06 02:20:36 UTC]

Portuguese language is spelled 'Portugese' in Lyx definitions. This causes all calls to spellchecker (aspell, ispell, hspell) to fail to recognize the language.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open document settings
2.Choose language
3.Choose 'Portugese'
4. Press F7 to call the spellchecker

Actual Results:  
Alert pop-up says:
'The spell-checker has failled.
 The file /usr/lib/aspell/portuges can not be opened for reading.'

Expected Results:  
Run the spell-checker file /usr/lib/aspell/portugues (or the corresponding
ispell, hspell files, depending on dictionary definitions).

[Comment 1 Rui Vilela 2005-07-04 02:47:18 UTC]

This is due to old compactibility issues with string length used on Babel. The
correct form should be portuguese. I don't know solution, just clue

[Comment 2 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2006-05-20 14:43:04 UTC]

There is a open bug upstream about this.
There is also described a work-around.

[Comment 3 NR 2006-05-20 15:41:47 UTC]

There is a simple but lazy workaround I've used with aspell:
I've created the file '/usr/lib/aspell/portuges.alias' by copying one of the already existing aliases for the language.
This way the spellchecker finds what it needs.
Is not a solution, is not pretty, but it works while this thing is not fixed in Lyx itself.

[Comment 4 pavel sanda 2007-05-06 23:13:23 UTC]

This problem should be fixed in 1.5.0.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-14 08:10:45 UTC]

1.5.1 in the tree -> FIXED.