Bug is still present in 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) enchant works well, empathy not.
~$ enchant -d de-DE /tmp/German_Test_Text.txt ~$ enchant -d de /tmp/German_Test_Text.txt error: line 1: missing or bad word count in the dic file Hash Manager Error : 4 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559894 Title: German spellchecking does not work Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Confirmed Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy I activated both "German" and "English" in the spell checker configuration dialog but every non-english word is underlined in red. Ubuntu says the language support is fully installed. I'm using Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch) Release: 10.04 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: empathy 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Apr 10 11:17:05 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=de_DE.utf8 SourcePackage: empathy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/559894/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp