Spell checking not working.

Thanks for your bug. It works fine for me. What value of LANGUAGE do you have to /etc/environment?

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en_GB:en"

Kind of curious why the en_GB is there, I never choose it.

What version of Ubuntu do you use?

Dapper. I wasn't aware anything other than it had xchat-gnome in main.

Ubuntu 5.10 has xchat-gnome built without libsexy so without that feature, dapper has that feature and it works for everybody else apparently, maybe Guillaume who is upstream has an idea on the issue you are facing ...

Not really, it's very strange.

Could you test with the test-spell-entry program of libsexy? You'll need to build it from package source.

Occurs in the test too. I'm remarking this to be an issue with libsexy.

In the new version of xchat-gnome with the spellcheck config screen, I see nothing in the list of languages.

Could you past the output of "enchant-lsmod -list-dicts" ?

I am having the same issue.

[jdong@shuttle junk]$ enchant-lsmod -list-dicts
en: 'aspell' (Aspell Provider)
en_CA: 'aspell' (Aspell Provider)
en_GB: 'aspell' (Aspell Provider)
en_US: 'aspell' (Aspell Provider)
he_IL: 'hspell' (Hspell Provider)
he: 'hspell' (Hspell Provider)

aaron@laika:~$ enchant-lsmod -list-dicts
en: 'aspell' (Aspell Provider)
en_CA: 'aspell' (Aspell Provider)
en_GB: 'aspell' (Aspell Provider)
en_US: 'aspell' (Aspell Provider)

I think i found the bug.
Try to install libenchant-dev and i should work fine.

I'll try to fix this bug tonight.

In fact the bug is in the enchant package.

/usr/lib/libenchant.so is in libenchant-dev and not libenchant1c2a.
So, if libenchant-dev isn't installed, libsexy can't open /usr/lib/libenchant.so and spellchecking is not working.

This package should fix the bug.

All .so* files are now in libenchant1c2a package.

Guillaume, the packaging is current. The actual library and what you link to is libname.so.sonumber, the .so is just used for the build and so it's shipped with the -dev (that's true for any library), your fix is wrong

Thanks for your feedback Sébastien. I don't know yet a lot about packaging stuff so thi kind of information is very useful for me. :)

So, it's a libsexy bug. It shouldn't try to open libenchant.so.
It seems fixed in HEAD version (or 0.1.8). I will backport that.

Libsexy try to open libenchant.so.1 before libenchant.so.

I hope it's fine now. :)

the soname has changed since, ".so.1" is not correct, but out of that it should work fine. Reassigning to dholbach

Are you sure?

$ dpkg -L libenchant1c2a | grep libenchant.so
/usr/lib/libenchant.so.1.2.3
/usr/lib/libenchant.so.1

I was thinking to the wrong lib :p

 libsexy (0.1.7-0ubuntu5) dapper; urgency=low
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   * debian/patches/01_fix_enchant_lookup.patch:
     - fix Malone: #36931 ("Spell checking not working.") -
       thanks Guillaume Desmottes <email address hidden>.

libsexy 0.1.7-0ubuntu5 broke my xchat-gnome: it now segfaults on startup. See Malone #41445. Reverting to libsexy 0.1.7-0ubuntu4 fixes that problem.

Sorry, I mentioned the wrong bug number. I was talking about #44991.

Just wanted to mention that this bug (spell check as you type) was still present in "Xchat-GNOME 0.11" Ubuntu dapper -2.6.15-26-386.
Installing libenchant-dev fixed it though.

Adam, it's a dependency problem. See bug 48513