<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 01 Nov 2014, at 11:38, Dominik Haumann <<a href="mailto:dhaumann@kde.org" class="">dhaumann@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On Friday 31 October 2014 10:52:44 Bastiaan Veelo wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">Is spell checking in Kate supported? If it is then I should check my<br class="">installation, because it accepts any and all text as correct US english. I<br class="">haven’t updated in a while, my Kate version is 3.10.2, KDE 4.10.2. I am<br class="">editing in Doxygen markup mode.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Hi Bastian,<br class=""><br class="">it definitely works under Linux. Maybe some other Windows develoepr here can <br class="">comment on this further?<br class=""><br class="">In Kate, we use the Sonnet spell checking library, which in turn has several <br class="">backends from ispiell to aspell and hunspell (and what now?!). Maybe one of <br class="">this libraries need to be available on Windows as well? Not sure.<br class=""><br class="">Besides that, did you try to change the dictionary through the Tools menu?<br class=""><br class="">Greetings,<br class="">Dominik<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class="">Hi Dominik,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your reply. It turned out I just lacked the aspell-en package. As Kate let me choose the language and didn’t complain I wrongly assumed it had the necessary packages installed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is one issue in Kate spelling though: it frequently returns false negatives: words that it signals as misspelled but are correct, and are present in the dictionary. Pressing “Replace” does nothing and it does not advance to the next word. I can add it to the dictionary (although it is already there) and after that it is accepted.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="436" width="666" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="81DD8036-7E0E-49FA-B207-B929F37A74D8" src="cid:967F1F88-C688-4995-9E07-30A8067BA83B" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition to aspell-en I have aspell-no and aspell-de installed.</div><div class=""><br class="">And finally two notes regarding the installer: 1) it would be nice to see what languages each spell package supports in a tool-tip. I confused the -am and -uk packages for American and United Kingdom. 2) Individual packages cannot be de-installed; checking “Remove installed packages” removes everything.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Bastiaan.<br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>