On Friday 25 December 2009 02:36:08 Stroller wrote: > On 24 Dec 2009, at 22:16, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the > > bottom of Composer shows "Spellcheck: on." Manually selecting > > Tools/Spelling shows the message "Spell check complete." But no > > mispelled words are marked, including nonsense strings like "lakjdfh." > > It's been a long time since I used KDE / Kmail, at least since I did so > seriously. But I seem to recall there is an option in the preferences to > set the path to the spell-checker. This may be changes to > "/usr/bin/aspell", to ispell or whatever. I would not be surprised if > there is at least one other alternate spell-checker by now - maybe ispell > is no longer the default? This preference may be centralised in the main > KControl options panel, rather than in the Kmail-specific options, > assuming I am recalling its existence correctly.
Somewhere in System Settings there is an option to set the global language for all KDE apps. This has caught me out before -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com