723231 - Spelling check switches back to German when English is selected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 967494

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[bugzilla-inbox]

Attachment: Bug-01.JPG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.46 Safari/535.11

Steps to reproduce:

Entering English text under English spell checking setting.


Actual results:

Spell checking falls back to German and marks all English words red. 

Setting spell check on pulldown to English works for a while but then German setting sets in again (not shown in pulldown) and all words are marked red in German spell setting.
To reproduce (assumed - I was using this setting for a long time and it was fine before upgrade to 9.1):

- have German spell checking installed
- write email with German spell checking, save email
- write email with English spell checking, observe English text entered spell-checked in German and marked red



Expected results:

When English spell checking is selected, English spell checking should stay until another language is selected.

Comment 1

[bugzilla-inbox]

Unchanged after update to 10.0

Comment 2

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to bugzilla-inbox from comment #1)
> Unchanged after update to 10.0

See bug 720206.
This works for me:
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0
Application Build ID: 20120129064000

Comment 3

[bugzilla-inbox]

Update - forgot to put in OS - 
Windows XP Professional Version 2002, Service Pack 3
Thunderbird is English version 10.0 after upgrade, symptoms unchanged

Comment 4

[bugzilla-inbox]

Unchanged after update from 10.0 to 10.0.1
In addition: I write about 30 % of messages in German with spell check enabled.

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

What locale is used for Thunderbird , english or German ? can you list your installed extensions ?

Comment 6

[bugzilla-inbox]

To answer your questions:  

Thunderbird is in EN
Extensions are: 
- German Dictionary 2.0.2
- Lightning 1.2.1
- Remove Duplicate Messages 0.1.10
- Test Pilot for Thunderbird 1.3.5

BUT - I got the issue solved with a workaround.

- Doing MozBackup of the the whole shebang (2 G) and put it on a new THB install of on another EN WXP. 
- Needed to install the German Dictionary 2.0.2 Addon there to test
Result - Error did not travel

Ergo 
- uninstalled the German Dict Addon on the original THB showing the error
- reinstalled the German Dict Addon

Error no longer shows. Seems to be some confusion in spell checker selection which may lurk around somewhere. 

I am leaving this "Unconfirmed" since I saw other posts where the red underlining came up in defective spell checking situations.

Comment 7

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

There are definitely problems with the language settings.

Symptoms of this looks (roughly) like bug 1059835.

Feel free to un-dupe if not.

Comment 8

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Fix pending in bug 967494.