On 2020-09-07 00:22, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 2020-09-06 22:05, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 2020-09-07 10:18, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> On 2020-09-06 17:44, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 2020-09-07 08:28, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>>>
>>>> # mv /usr/share/myspell /usr/share/myspell.000
>>>>
>>>> And thunderbird is still finding misspelled words
>>>>
>>>> What a onion to unravel this is!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did you restart T-Bird after the move? Is it possible T-bird loads
>>> the dictionary into memory on
>>> startup?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I stopped Thunerbird first. Renamed mysell, then
>> restarted Thunderbird.
>
> Well, I did the following.
>
> cd /usr/share/myspell
> cp en_US.dic en_DE.dic
> cp en_US.aff en_DE.aff
>
> This creates an English Dictionary for "Germany". A dictionary that
> doesn't exist and won't get overwritten
> by updates.
>
> I then deleted the line "yo" from the newly created dictionary.
>
> Then I went to the T-Bird Preferences, Composition, Spelling tab
> (after restarting T-Bird) and selected
> English (Germany) from the drop down menu.
>
> After doing that "yo" had a red line under it as I had "Enable
> spellcheck as you type".
>
>
>
Bingo! Thank you!
And "en_DE" IS NOT in my prefs.js! AAAAA HHHHH !!!!!!!