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Only 67% :-( Guess I'm too young to know about those k* tools ;-) Some questions are a little Debian-specific too, but hey :-)

I'm sorry Gnome-NL guys, but I must confess I'm running my desktop using the "C" locale (ie. english). There's one major problem with this: when I'm using Gaim with spell checking enabled, I'm always "wrong" as 99% of all time I talk to IM buddies, it's in dutch (nl_BE, or something close to that at least ;-)).
A very annoying issue that could be solved by disabling spell checking (*sigh*), which I don't want (hey, one has to *fix* problems, not go around them).

So I made this little patch (very simple, low profile patch, I know). It's against gtkspell 2.0.11, and as gtkspell seems to be no longer maintained, this is the version you got on your system most propably too.

To set a language to use for (gtkspell based) spell checking, just set the GTKSPELL_LANG environment variable, like this:
echo "export GTKSPELL_LANG=nl >> ~/.profile"
Then log out and log in again so the variable is incorporated in your environment.

Enjoy!