Bug 380071

Summary:	spellcheck unusable
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Mike Bourke <composermike>
Component:	application	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	christoph, kare.sars
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.08
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Mike Bourke 2017-05-22 06:37:01 UTC

spellcheck results squeezed into status bar, complaining about words that (according to 'find') are not in the document, not highlighting words or moving to misspelled words, not suggesting correct spellings - spellchecking without adding formatting characters was one of the main reasons I downloaded Kate, without it there's little that Kate does that Wordpad won't do for me.

Comment 1 Mike Bourke 2017-05-22 06:38:58 UTC

Possibly related: configuring the spellcheck in Kate's settings panel and hitting "apply" produces the message "No backend for for spell checking".

Comment 2 Kåre Särs 2017-05-22 07:23:56 UTC

Hmm... what language are you trying to to use for spelling?

Comment 3 Kåre Särs 2017-05-22 07:55:38 UTC

Did the downloading of the dictionary succeed?

You can download additional dictionaries from:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/<language code>/<language code>.aff
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/<language code>/<language code>.dic

You need both the .aff and .dic file

Then place them in bin/data/hunspell/

Comment 4 Mike Bourke 2017-05-22 15:12:20 UTC

American English. I can confirm that the two language files are where they are supposed to be.

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2018-08-15 20:31:40 UTC

We think that is fixed nowadays, could you try a current version from our homepage and retry? If that really still happens for you, please reopen.