255104 - Tbird spell check horked on new install

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253054

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

New install of 2004-08-10 0.8 tbird on winxp pro. Attempt to spell check shows
empty misspelled word. screenshot coming up.

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: screen shot

The email contained katdog.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

hmmm I can't seem to reproduce this.

Did you do a clean install or install over a previous installation?

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

pretty sure it was clean to a new directory and i had deleted the old tbird
profile. I will uninstall and try again to be sure.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

when i bring up the spell check dialog the language "English" is selected in the
drop down not "Download More".

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I can reproduce the problem.

I uninstalled, deleted the old Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird directory,
deleted my Thunderbird Profile, reinstalled using custom and added offline and
rss support.

Comment 6

[Rachel H.]

running win xp/thunderbird 20040810

I can confirm that I saw the behavior described in bug 253054--default
dictionary set to "download more" instead of "English/US"--in yesterday's build.
 (So the first time running the spell check on "spel ceck donnt wirk" gave me
"No misspelled words." ) Switching the dictionary to English restored
functionality.  

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253054 ***