Enhance spell checking

[Jochen boutens]

I'm glad to see spellchecking is implemented in more and more programs un 
the standard desktop.

[quote]According to the latest dyslexia research from the National 
Institutes of Health, dyslexia affects 20 percent of Americans (and about 
the same percentage of people in other countries.) (source 
http://www.bartonreading.com/dys.html )[quote]

Problem: Spellchecking only works for the default language in programs like 
Gaim, Xchat, Firefox etc. But most people use multiple languages to 
communicate. For instance, many people on this list do not have English as 
there first language, but they do like spell checking  in English.

There should be a standard way in applications to switch between languages 
for spellchecking. Perhaps it could even be possible to auto detect what 
language the user is typing in, and use the proper language checks.
Spellchecking should be enabled where possible and should support all the 
languages selected in language support.

After suggesting this on the wiki, we discussed it on the last IRC meeting, 
it was well received. Perhaps we could write a general spec about it and 
someone is willing to discuss it on UDS Mountain View.
Should this be proposed on the dev-mailing list?

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