[Bug 651586] Re: Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox spellcheck has too many languages

[mag]

This has become a problem again with me. I used the "$HOME/.local/share
/myspell-selected" workaround from
https://askubuntu.com/questions/299398/mozilla-thunderbird-spellcheck-
has-too-many-listed-languages but it stopped working again a while ago
(a year?).

In thunderbird spellcheck I how have 
- 6 varieties of German
- 7 varieties fo French
- 5 varieties of English and 
- 19 varieties of Arabic

I'm using English localization and have AR, DE, FR installed as I need
the keyboard from time to time. Not sure why it is not possible to
select only ONE variety of each language. (Especially for Arabic I have
the impression that the varieties are for the most part only copies of
Standard Arabic. Would be helpful if a solution comes up some time.

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Title:
  Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox spellcheck has too many languages

Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in libreoffice-dictionaries package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: thunderbird

  Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox spellcheck has too many languages. It
  does not follow the Ubuntu Language Support Standard (gnome-language-
  selector).

  Language Support (gnome-language-selector) has a feature which allows
  you to gray out languages you are not interested in seeing and black
  in the languages you would like to see. Mozilla apps should follow
  this or should at least offer a workaround allowing a user to disable
  certain languages.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: thunderbird 3.0.8+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Sep 29 17:49:00 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en_CA:en
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: thunderbird

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