Spell-check for NZ should use En_GB instead of En_US

Similar problem with Canadian users (en_CA): it seems that we also get the US english spell checker instead of British English. In Firefox, when looking at Help-->About, it shows that the version of Firefox installed is "en-US" (at least on my system).

If you download Firefox 2 beta manually from mozilla.org (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-beta.html), you can select which language you want for your download, and choose between english and english (british). I assume that will install the spell checker in the language that you want.

Is this still an issue for you? We are trying to trying sort out the older Mozilla issues and would like to know if this still happens.

I can't tell you, sorry. I am travelling Europe for 7 months without a
computer - hopefully another Kiwi can help you out! If not, I'll do it
when I return.

lost reporter ... rejecting

It still occurs on Gutsy Tribe 5.

What version of firefox and ubuntu are you seeing this on?

Can you also please give us step by step instructions on hwo to reproduce this? Did you try installing the firefox-language-pack for your country code?

Gutsy Beta (with the Firefox that comes with it) uses the US spellchecker. Typing words like centre into a text box like this one causes them to be underlined. If I right-click and look at languages, En_US is checked. Obviously, changing the language to En_GB fixes the issue.

There is no language/locale pack for NZ, as far as I can see. My system has the en-gb locale installed by default (which probably explains why the spellcheck is available in the right-click list) but the spellcheck language defaults to US.

This issue still exists in Hardy Alpha 1

Step by step instructions:
1) Install Hardy - selecting English as the language and New Zealand as the country (time zone Auckland);
2) Log in to Ubuntu and start Firefox;
3) Navigate to a webpage with a text box that is spellchecked (for example, this comment box);
4) Type a word like "colour".

Firefox underlines the word and suggests "color".

This can be fixed by right-clicking > languages and choosing "English / United Kingdom" or "en_GB".

I have "en_US" (the one ticked by default), "English / United States", "en_ZA", "en_GB", "English / United Kingdom" and "English / South Africa" in my list in a fresh install.

As an aside, Is there a good reason that I have two entries in the list for each variant, or is that another bug to be filed and fixed?

And in Hardy Alpha 2.

If you still see this issue in a supported version of Ubuntu please file this bug on the firefox language packs package. Refer to apt-cache search firefox-locales and find the right one and file a new bug.
This one is being closed due to its nota firefox bug but a bug in the lang. packs

How do I know which locale it is? From the look of synaptic, I don't
have any language packs/locales installed. If I install the enGB
language pack, the default spell-checker doesn't change. There is no
language pack for NZ - does there need to be? Can a language pack
change the default spell-checker?

Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> How do I know which locale it is? From the look of synaptic, I don't
> have any language packs/locales installed. If I install the enGB
> language pack, the default spell-checker doesn't change. There is no
> language pack for NZ - does there need to be? Can a language pack
> change the default spell-checker?
>
Maybe try language-pack-gnome-en or language-pack-gnome-en-base

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