Re: Failed to get spell checker

[Wolfgang Lux]

> Am 18.03.2020 um 15:10 schrieb Wolfgang Lux <wolfgang.lux@gmail.com>:
> 
> 
>> Am 18.03.2020 um 00:37 schrieb Riccardo Mottola via Discussion list for the 
>> GNUstep programming environment <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>:
>> 
>> Hi steppers!
>> 
>> I notice many of these errors:
>> 
>> 2020-03-18 00:22:39.070 GNUMail[6471:6471] Failed to get the spellserver
>> 2020-03-18 00:22:41.078 GNUMail[6471:6471] Language: BritainEnglish
>> 2020-03-18 00:22:41.080 GNUMail[6471:6471] Service to start: (null)
>> 2020-03-18 00:22:41.082 GNUMail[6471:6471] Port: (null)
>> 2020-03-18 00:22:41.083 GNUMail[6471:6471] Failed to contact spell checker 
>> for language 'BritainEnglish'
>> 2020-03-18 00:22:41.085 GNUMail[6471:6471] Failed to get the spellserver
>> 
>> 
>> So, fun, I thought, no dictionaries installed?
>> 
>> GNUstep uses aspell, right?
>> 
>> A quick check with "aspell dict" says I have plenty:
>> $ aspell dicts
>> en
>> en-variant_0
>> en-variant_1
>> en-variant_2
>> en-w_accents
>> en-wo_accents
>> en_AU
>> en_AU-variant_0
>> en_AU-variant_1
>> en_AU-w_accents
>> en_AU-wo_accents
>> en_CA
>> en_CA-variant_0
>> en_CA-variant_1
>> en_CA-w_accents
>> en_CA-wo_accents
>> en_GB
>> en_GB-ise
>> en_GB-ise-w_accents
>> en_GB-ise-wo_accents
>> en_GB-ize
>> en_GB-ize-w_accents
>> en_GB-ize-wo_accents
>> en_GB-variant_0
>> en_GB-variant_1
>> en_GB-w_accents
>> en_GB-wo_accents
>> en_US
>> en_US-variant_0
>> en_US-variant_1
>> en_US-w_accents
>> en_US-wo_accents
>> 
>> 
>> at least most english variants I know and also those I didn't know their 
>> existence of.
>> 
>> So what's going wrong?
> 
> I think you are facing a bit of a hen and egg problem. To determine the 
> supported languages, the spell checking code has to ask the spell checking 
> service. But the spell checking code can start the service only from a 
> supported language. By default the only known supported language is 
> 'AmericanEnglish'. So, either switch to locale en_US (or C for that matter), 
> open the spell checker once to get the service going and then return to 
> locale en_GB (which appears to be what you are using). Or start the GSSpell 
> service manually in your startup script.

Actually, it doesn't make much sense to start up the GSpell service from your 
startup script. The service will write the available languages to an Info.plist 
file in your ~/GNUstep/Library directory when it starts. It's just that the 
default installation in the system wide Library directory will just include 
AmericanEnglish as the only language. So you have to connect to it once with 
the language set to AmericanEnglish. From the on you should be able to connect 
with any supported language.

Wolfgang