Bug 141388

Summary: automatic spell checking in kmail shows corrects words as wrong
Product: [Applications] kontact Reporter: menschmeier <baeckham>
Component: mailAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description menschmeier 2007-02-08 10:32:41 UTC 
Version:           1.2.3 (using KDE 3.5.5, Gentoo)
Compiler:          Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.20-gentoo

I am trying to use automatic spell checking in kmail. I have installed ispell and aspell, for both the English and German dictionaries are available.

The spell checking is working really good, but the automatic spell checker marks a lot of words - about 50% - as incorrect. This only happen when I am using the German dictionary. With English I do not have this problem. Doing a manual spell check shows no errors. 

English is the default language on my system - maybe this causes the problem.
Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2007-02-08 17:10:10 UTC 
I have an english system and use a german spellchecker which works fine for me.
What method do you use to select your dictionary?
Comment 2 menschmeier 2007-02-09 09:56:12 UTC 
I opened the composer dialog - Settings - Spellchecker ... then I selected Ispell and the German (new spelling) dictionary, ISO 8859-15 enconding. But I tried aspell too.
Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2007-02-09 12:25:51 UTC 
That way, it does not work, see bug #79681.
Try selecting the dictionary via View->Dictionary and see if that works better.
Comment 4 menschmeier 2007-02-09 12:33:10 UTC 
Yes this way it is working. Is this behavior intended or is it a bug? At least it is a quite hidden feature.
Shall I close the bug or not?
Comment 5 Thomas McGuire 2007-02-09 12:40:12 UTC 
It is not intended, it is a bug (bug #79681).
I'll close this bug report now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79681 ***