Public bug reported:
Hello! This is about the package language-support-en on Ubuntu Gutsy,
but it applies generally to all language-support-* packages in all or
most other Ubuntu versions.
When I install the package, English dictionaries for the spell-checking
feature of Firefox are installed. The problem is that it doesn't install
a single dictionary; I get six different entries in the languages list
(right-click on a spell-checkable field, go to the "Languages..." menu):
"English / United Kingdom", "en_US", "English / United States", "en_ZA",
"English / South Africa" and "en_GB". I also need the Romanian
dictionary (which added "Romanian" and "ro_RO") and French (which
interestingly only adds _one_ entry). By the way, in Firefox's languages
list in the Add-ons window there are only three entries, one for each
language.
In conclusion, instead of choosing between three options I am now forced
to choose between nine!
What's worse, it seems these dictionaries cannot be disabled. I tried
disabling English in Firefox's Add-ons window, it's grayed-out but the
six options still appear in the right-click menu. This means that I
can't simply get rid of them and install a separate dictionary. (I could
uninstall the language-support-* packages, but then I'd loose the other
features of the packages, like OOo spell-check.)
** Affects: language-support-en (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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language-support-en pollutes Firefox's spell-check languages list
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157921
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