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Errors in german spell-checker

Bug #892022 reported by Michael Piefel
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #559894: German spellchecking does not work. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Spell checking works (unlike #559894), but makes some mistakes. They seem to relate mostly to the letter ‘ß’, possibly introduced wrongly while trying to adapt to the spelling reform a few years back. In particular, the following words are underlined:
  ==> Maß Spaß heißt Kloß Fuß
They are all quite correct. I’m sure there are dozens more. It is not a problem with ‘ß’ in general, as ‘weiß’ is correctly identified as spelled correctly. Sorry for the repetitiveness.

PS: This is most certainly not an empathy bug, but I don’t know which package is responsible for spell checking here.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 18 13:15:12 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (35 days ago)

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Michael Piefel (michael-piefel) wrote :
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Bilal Shahid (s9iper1) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 559894, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Michael Piefel (michael-piefel) wrote :

This is absolutely not a duplicate of #559894 – German spellchecking is working, I do not get red lines for my texts. Did you even read my report? It says ‘unlike #559894’, so I already made my homework at least that far.

Spellchecking fails for a number of words (see my original report), all the errors are related to the same letter ‘ß’. It works for the others

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Benjamin Schmid (benbuntu) wrote :

I share the reportes opinion, that it doesn't necessarily seem to be a duplicate of of bug #559894.

@Michael: Can you check using a textfile with some german text and the commands as described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/559894/comments/24 that you problem is _not_ related to the locale "de" vs. "de-DE".

If you are able to reproduce your problem with enchant itself, it would probably help if you open a separate bug in the enchant Issue tracker for your issue and link to there. Thanks & Grüße!

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