1511175 - language choice for spellcheck non retained

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[mauriz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

i have dictionaries for italian, french, english-UK and english-US
in preferences i setup the main language for being italian


Actual results:

after some time (after some times i change the language in the spellcheck drop-down of the editing windows) the choice made in preferences is lost, and always changes into english-UK


Expected results:

the choice of the main language made in preferences should not change

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

No, the preference is maintained unless something out of our control happens. If you change the language in a chat, that will also change the preference. If you restart TB in "safe mode" without add-ons, then the pref will drop back to the only installed dictionary, since the other once are disabled. Or there is a rogue add-on messing that up.

I know this area very well, my pref is set en-UK but I use German, French and Spanish as well. It will stay that way unless I do something described in the first paragraph.

Feel free to re-open the bug if you can deliver a reproducible case.

Comment 2

[mauriz]

hi jorg k,
thank you for the answer.
i think that the fact that one can thoroughly explain why the change happens is not a justification for it.
i mean that after choosing a language in preferences, i would like it to stay, whichever my use of TB.
BTW i don't chat with TB, i only do email - and sometimes from the message editing window i change the language when i write in french or english,. nevertheless at a given moment the default language is changed. any idea about this?
best
maurizio

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

OK, if you don't use chat, then there is no way that the preference will get changed.

I'm happy to reopen the bug and fix the problem if you can give exact steps how to reproduce it. As I said, I'm constantly switching between English, German and Spanish and sometimes French and the my default never changes.

Are you using any add-ons? Which?

Comment 4

[mauriz]

thanks jorg, 
i have only three add-ons: 
account colors - https://addons.thunderbird.net/it/thunderbird/addon/account-colors/
invia dopo - https://addons.thunderbird.net/it/thunderbird/addon/send-later-3/?src=ss 
and thunder-PEC - https://addons.thunderbird.net/it/thunderbird/addon/thunderpec/?src=ss

the exact step i am not able to define. only that after a certain amount of times that from the message editing window i change the spell-check language when i write in french or english, at a given moment the default language is changed.

best
maurizio

Comment 5

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

I've checked those three add-ons, they don't touch the preference spellchecker.dictionary. You use the Italian version of TB? That doesn't come packaged with a dictionary? Well, I assume this happens: You have
en-UK
en-US
fr-??
it-??

en-UK is first. If you start TB in save mode, add-ons disables, see Help menu, then all dictionaries will be disabled and the pref will be invalid. When you next restart, you get the first in the list, en-UK.

You really need to observe under which circumstances you lose the default.

Comment 6

[mauriz]

hi jorg,
my dictionaries are:
IT: dizionario italiano 5.0.0 by flod, from www.mozillaitalia.org
en-UK: British English Dictionary v. 2.67 by Marco Pinto, from proofingtoolguy.org
en-US: United States English Spellchecker 8.1 by jooliaan, i see now that it it discontinued, and have just installed yours
french: Dictionnaire français 6.3 by or, from dicollecte.org

any idea if for US and french i can something better?
best
maurizio

Comment 7

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Off topic:
Marco's en-US is best, for en-US, mine is the one that Mozilla ships with FF, so that's good, too, of course not at good as Marco's since he invests a lot of time into maintaining it. Personally, I don't use en-US. I write Australian/UK English and haven't heard any complaints so far. The French one is the right one, too, I'm using it myself. They had a bit of to-and-throw with with classic vs. modern vs. reformed, now they're only shipping "fr-classic".