[kmail2] [Bug 376565] Automatic spell checking is not working

[avlas]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376565

--- Comment #2 from avlas <jsardid at gmail.com> ---
I found the root issue. It is due to the font that is being used.

The same happens in other applications such as Kate. The reason why this didn't
seem to happen is because I use a monospace font in Kate where the bug didn't
happen (Hack 10), but it emerge as soon as I changed it to the font of my
system (Cabin 11).


This bug has been reported against Kate/Kwrite/etc before and it seems to be
tagged as fixed:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335988
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343313
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366291
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335079

However this is not fixed at all in my system (up-to-date KDE neon User Edition
5.9). It might be a regression...

Reading more carefully to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335079 it seems
the fix only works in a subset of fonts, perhaps this is enough for Kate as
people tend to use monospace fonts (my included) but it's far from ideal for
the rest of KDE apps that rely on spellchecking (Kate, Choqok, Konqueror...)

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