[Bug 190035] New: KMail spell checking does not work and not save settings

[diafero at arcor.de]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190035

           Summary: KMail spell checking does not work and not save
                    settings
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: composer
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: diafero at arcor.de


Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Spell checking in KMail (and other applications, too, but KMail is more wired
and it's the only place I need it) acts quite wired for me (KDE 4.2.2, Kubuntu
9.04 RC):
At the beginning, it wouldn't highlight any mistakes in the edit area, "Extras
- Spell check" did nothing. While I continued setting up my system, it worked
properly one time, before falling back to the old state.
I recently discovered the configuration window at "Settings - spell checker"
and saw it was set to "German", without any country being mentioned. I set it
to "German (Germany)" after which both the context menu and the manual spell
checking in the Extras menus worked fine, but wrong words are not underlined
red. In addition, that setting is not saved, when I close the composer and open
a new one, it always resets to the first entry on the list, which is sometimes
"German" and sometimes "German (Austria)". I had to manually set it to "German
(Germany)" each time I write a new message if I wanted to use spell checking,
and that would still not give me the red underlines. The spell checker options
in the system settings are completely ignored (which I think was the case from
the beginning, but I did not check).

Spell checking in Konqueror worked fine after I manually set the spell checker
options once - they are correctly saved though. Konqueror, too, ignores the
global spell checking options even when I manually remove the local ones from
the konquerorrc file (in which case it defaults back to "German" and does not
work until I set it to "German (Germany)" again, which will make "German"
vanish from the list). What is wired though is that the spell checker in all
applications also offers Turkish and Hebrew spell checking which I never
installed. Choosing a non-German language will bring back the "German" entry to
the list if it vanished.

I'm sorry if this description sounds a bit confused, but that's exactly what I
am and I could not find and reproducible pattern so far.

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