Re: Dictionaries won't load

From: ignaz.forster@gmx.de
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 11:20:55 EDT

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    Hi Chris,

    sorry, I don't know more about it - I just played around a bit to get it
    working...
    Maybe anyone else knows more about it?

    Ignaz

    > Hi Ignaz,
    >
    > Thanks for your advice. I tried it out but I still get the same problem.
    > I don't know if it's at all related but I can't get spellchecking
    > working in Evolution either!!
    >
    > Chris Abrams.
    >
    >
    > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 09:14, ignaz.forster@gmx.de wrote:
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > you could try the following:
    > > In your home directory there should be a directory calles /.AbiSuite
    > with a
    > > AbiWord.Profile file in it.
    > > It worked to me to set the following entries to this:
    > > <Select
    > > scheme="standard"
    > > autosaveprefs="1"
    > > useenvlocale="1"
    > > />
    > >
    > > and to create a new profile called "standard" (not _builtin_), and to
    > copy
    > > all entries containing the language files and paste it into the new
    > profile.
    > > Then I replaced the en-US with my language, and it worked.
    > >
    > > I think there should be a more easy way to do that, but as I'm using the
    > > BeOS version, I can't use the configuration boxes, so I don't know how
    > to change
    > > it that way...
    > >
    > > Ignaz Forster
    > >
    > >
    > > > I've installed version 1.02 of AbiWord on Mandrake 8.1 using an RPM
    > from
    > > > the Ximian website. I uninstalled version 0.92 of AbiWord (the one
    > that
    > > > shipped with Mandrake 8.1) and, following previous advice on this
    > list,
    > > > deleted the .AbiSuite directory from my home directory. I installed
    > > > AbiWord 1.02 without any problems but could not get the spellchecker
    > to
    > > > work, with the language set to English (UK) or English (US). Each time
    > > > the program returned the message "Could not load the dictionary for
    > the
    > > > XXX language". So I downloaded the abispell-en-GB rpm from SourceForge
    > > > and installed that. I selected English (UK) as my language, but again
    > > > the spellcheck facility in AbiWord reported that it was unable to load
    > > > the dictionary (in this case the en-GB dictionary). I have verified
    > that
    > > > the british.hash file is in the /usr/share/AbiSuite/dictionary
    > > > directory.
    > > >
    > > > Any advice on how to resolve this problem would be much appreciated.
    > > >
    > > > Many thanks,
    > > >
    > > > Chris Abrams.
    > > >
    > > >
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