It looks like most problems that users report with repeatedly choosing ONE spell checking language would be satisfactorily solved if the user could once for all setup SEVERAL dictionaries to be used SIMULTANEOUSLY for the languages he can write, among those installed on his system. That is especially needed for e-mail since many people write them in several languages (and that's the way Evolution does it). It seems fairly simple to do, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676500
I'm not sure what is being made in these patches, but be sure not to override the user's setting for the spell checker language(s), especially if, one day hopefully, it will be set to several languages like fr_FR,en_US,en_GB,ru_RU. Automatic detection should be done only if the user has set spell check language setting to "automatic". On the other hand: 1) is it because a page is displayed in French that a bug report requested to be in English should be spell checked in French? 2) is text necessarily in a single language? Looking at the e-mails I most often write, the answer is a definite NO. 3) isn't it much easier and sufficient that the user set once for all the set of all the languages he can write? BTW: was all text entered in this thread spell checked ? ;-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303269 Title: Automatically select language for spell check based on user input To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/303269/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
