[Bug 1548206] [NEW] Kate spellcheck not working

[bob]

Public bug reported:

Neither automatic nor manual spellcheck work in english with the default
package install of kate.

I ran xubuntu 16.04 alpha from the xenial-desktop-amd64.iso file
downloaded from http today.

I installed kate using the gui package manager.

I opened kate and typed nonsense into it.

I went to the menu Tools> Spelling> Automatic Spell Checking and
activated it.

none of the nonsense was marked as misspelled.

Next I went to Tools> Spelling> Spelling... and ran a spellcheck.  it
marked everything as OK.

I expected gibberish to be marked as misspelled.


xubuntu at xubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
Release:	16.04


xubuntu at xubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy kate
kate:
  Installed: 4:15.08.2-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 4:15.08.2-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 4:15.08.2-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: kate 4:15.08.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.367
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Feb 22 06:57:55 2016
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160221)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kate
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: kate (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial

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