How does KDE 4 spell check work?

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I noticed that KDE 4 doesn’t offer the option anymore to choose the spell checker under ‘Personal Settings’.

How come? How does the spell checker work now under KDE 4? Which spell checking application does the checking(ispell? aspell? kspell2?)?

Cheers,

homoludens

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I saw a reference to ispell somewhere. Konqueror has a Configure Spellcheck option but there isn’t a choice of spellchecker in it.

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It’s in configure desktop > regional settings in my kde4.2

/Geoff

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Yes, that’s exactly what I was referring to.

I don’t see this setting in my KDE 4.2. How do you get there, from Personal Settings?
Anyway, it’s not that important.

Hmmmmmmmm … I believe I didn’t formulate the questions precisely enough. :\ I didn’t mean “How do I get the KDE 4 spell check to work”, but rather “How does the KDE 4 spell checker FUNCTION? What application does it use / is it based on? Why is there no longer a choice of spell checkers like in KDE 3.5?”

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I don’t really followed the story. KDE4 was supposed to have Sonnet (Mountain Goat Programmer), but last I heard is that the developer was MIA.

I suppose it now just uses Enchant… that by default uses Hunspell

$ rpm -e --test libenchant1                        
error: Failed dependencies:                                                        
        libenchant.so.1()(64bit) is needed by (installed) enchant-1.4.2-16.55.x86_64
        libenchant.so.1()(64bit) is needed by (installed) kdelibs4-4.2.0-83.3.x86_64
$ cat /usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering                    
*:myspell,aspell,ispell                                                             
fi:voikko,ispell,myspell,aspell                                                     
fi_FI:voikko,ispell,myspell,aspell                                                  
he:hspell,myspell                                                                   
he_IL:hspell,myspell                                                                
yi:uspell                                                                           
tr:zemberek                                                                         
tr_TR:zemberek
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Thanks for the info, RedDwarf. I’ve checked what packages are installed on my machine, and Enchant is one of them (while KSpell / Sonnet are not).

I’ve read that Enchant is able to use different backends simultaneously, so since I have aspell as well as ispell installed, I suspect they are all in use. Is there a way to verify this, and/or to customize the Enchant settings?

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That’s interesting as the Konqueror interface refers to Sonnet but I have the following files on my system:
/usr/bin/enchant
/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so
/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_ispell.so
/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kspell_enchant.so

So it looks as if there is potentially a choice but the interface to select that choice hasn’t been written.