I looked at this again, since I'd been installing libreoffice from their website while bug 739184 had yet to be fixed.
Copying over the dict-* directories from C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\share\extensions of a Windows partition to /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions and restarting LibreOffice completely fixes this. It would seem that these dictionaries are left out of the Ubuntu package deliberately, perhaps under the belief that aspell or myspell procides sufficient support, which it might do for some dialects (maybe it's even better, but I haven't left my installation in a useless state long enough to do comparisons), but neither supports the range of LibreOffice's own dictionaries (though maybe there's in fact an overlap, I don't know). If it is indeed deliberate, all that's needed to fix this is to stop doing it! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1161675 Title: LibreOffice lacks support for documents' spell-checking in Ubuntu for most languages and dialects Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Fresh install of Raring (because I'm playing with the Beta, but I've noted similar issues before with other builds), en-IE locale. Libreoffice has English dictionaries for: en-AU, en-CA, en-GB, en-US, en-ZA, and no others. Uninstall Libreoffice and install from .deb files. Libreoffice has support for: en-AU, en-BZ, en-CA, en-GB, en-GH, en-IE, en-IN, en-JM, en-MW, en-NA, en-NZ, en-PH, en-TT, en-US, en-ZA & en-ZW. This severely hampers the usefulness of LibreOffice to many English speakers, unless they've installed manually. A workaround can be to mark your document as being in the supported dialect closest to your own and then spell-check it before changing it back. This is imperfect in checking for some dialects, and not as easily done if you are mixing languages (or worse, dialects of English) in the same document. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1161675/+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
