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 It's against gtkspell 2.0.11, and as gtkspell seems to be no longer maintained, this is the version you got on your system most propably too.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!
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12/23/05 @ 22:21 It is possible gtkspell is still maintained if you say so... The latest CVS commit I could find though is dated 2 months ago. The last mailing list messages only contain spam,...
FYI: the Gaim FAQ states: "This functionality has long been promised for gtkspell version 3, which has been delayed somewhat indefinitely" (see http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q112)
I didn't want to offend anyone by writing this blog entry or patch... Just made it for my own use, and maybe to help someone else out who got similar issues.
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