British dictionary problem with latest Thunderbird

Chris · External Since: May 27, 2005 Posts: 473

Following the update of Thunderbird to 2.0.0.5 I've lost my British
dictionary. Installing the latest from Mozilla doesn't help as it claims
to be incompatible!

Anyone else having this problem?

Chris · External Since: May 27, 2005 Posts: 473

Chris wrote:
> Following the update of Thunderbird to 2.0.0.5 I've lost my British
> dictionary. Installing the latest from Mozilla doesn't help as it claims
> to be incompatible!
>
> Anyone else having this problem?

OK. Found a discussion of this here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=533612

And a fix mentioned above here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=533612

You'd think someone at Mozilla would fix this?

Ian Rawlings · External Since: Oct 07, 2006 Posts: 238

On 2007-07-23, Chris <ithinkiam DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:

> You'd think someone at Mozilla would fix this?

Openoffice was similar, apparently I just had to download a language
pack and use the language pack wizard or something like that in
"wizards" menu entry in the file menu, alas no such entry! Some file
editing and prodding around sorted it in the end.

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Chris · External Since: May 27, 2005 Posts: 473

Ian Rawlings wrote:
> On 2007-07-23, Chris <ithinkiam RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You'd think someone at Mozilla would fix this?
>
> Openoffice was similar, apparently I just had to download a language
> pack and use the language pack wizard or something like that in
> "wizards" menu entry in the file menu, alas no such entry! Some file
> editing and prodding around sorted it in the end.
>

Yeah, been bitten by that one too Wink

I did find the wizard though. From memory I think it /is/ in the File
menu, but not exactly where they say. It's very kludgey and the fact
that you need to restart OO to get the new dictionaries working is a pain.

Plus, it seems some documents/templates that pre-date the British
dictionary are stuck on the defualt US English language. That is a real
bind! Sad

Ian Rawlings · External Since: Oct 07, 2006 Posts: 238

On 2007-07-24, Chris <ithinkiam.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> I did find the wizard though. From memory I think it /is/ in the File
> menu, but not exactly where they say. It's very kludgey and the fact
> that you need to restart OO to get the new dictionaries working is a pain.

It really wasn't anywhere on mine, I searched all the menus, checked
't internet and even slaughered a chicken but no appropriate "wizard"
despite me finding the wizard menu. The package manager menu would
have been a sensible place to put it but it wasn't there either.

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Mark Kent · External Since: Feb 09, 2005 Posts: 5545

Ian Rawlings <news06.DeleteThis@tarcus.org.uk> espoused:
> On 2007-07-24, Chris <ithinkiam.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I did find the wizard though. From memory I think it /is/ in the File
>> menu, but not exactly where they say. It's very kludgey and the fact
>> that you need to restart OO to get the new dictionaries working is a pain.
>
> It really wasn't anywhere on mine, I searched all the menus, checked
> 't internet and even slaughered a chicken but no appropriate "wizard"
> despite me finding the wizard menu. The package manager menu would
> have been a sensible place to put it but it wasn't there either.
>

I've been bitten by this here a few times, too. Having standard English
as the default would help, of course, but for some reason, we're stuck
with yank.

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Big and Blue · External Since: Jan 07, 2005 Posts: 70

Chris wrote:
>
> I did find the wizard though. From memory I think it /is/ in the File
> menu, but not exactly where they say.

FYI: If you're running KDE you can open a Konqueror browser window on
it's containing directory and drag&drop it into the Add-ons->Themes window.

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