I can confirm this problem exists on Karmic using Openoffice. "Failure loading aff file /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff" is written to the console after launching oowrite from the console. Simple words such as
I made the error go away (note, I don't consider myself an expert in the affix file format - and thus don't know which south african grammar + spelling rules will be violated ), by copying the en_GB.aff file over the en_ZA.aff file sudo cp /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_GB.aff /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff it seems that there's a parse error on the existing en_ZA.aff file (and indeed may have something to do with OP's duplicate REP table errors). -- error: duplicate REP tables used https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330454 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs