Thunderbird Spelchecker (English UK)

[John]

Since my copy of Thunderbird upgraded itself the spellcheck extension no
longer works. I've tried downloading both but the spellcheck installer tells
me the spellcheck is incompatible with the version of Thunderbird I'm using.
Simple question: What is highest compatible versions of Thunderbird and
English (GB not USA) spell checkers?
Regards, John

[Brian Heinrich]

XPIs are just ZIP files with a non-standard extension, so you can use a ZIP
utility to unzip it and then copy the *.aff and *.dic files into the
appropriate directory in Program Files.

Make sure Tb is closed when you do so, then restart it and set your spelling
Preferences. . . .

--
/b.

String quartets don't march very well.
--Donald Barthelme, /The Dead Father/

[silv...@googlemail.com]

Tried this with no success - Tb 2 declines to recognise any dictionary
present. On attempting installation from within Tb2 the en-GB
downloads fine, but then message appears that "British English
Dictionary 1.19 could not be installed because it is not compatible
with Firefox (sic) 2.0.0.3. British English Dictionary 1.19 will only
work with Firefox (sic) versions from 2.0b1 to 2.0b2"
I am installing in Thunderbird (not Firefox) and I am downloading the
Thunderbird dictionary!
Any more suggestions?
Thanks

[Nir]

silv...@googlemail.com wrote:
> On 2 Apr, 01:28, Brian Heinrich <brian.mozi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2007-04-01 16:54 (-0600 UTC), John wrote:
>>
>>> Since my copy of Thunderbird upgraded itself the spellcheck extension no
>>> longer works. I've tried downloading both but the spellcheck installer tells
>>> me the spellcheck is incompatible with the version of Thunderbird I'm using.
>>> Simple question: What is highest compatible versions of Thunderbird and
>>> English (GB not USA) spell checkers?
>>> Regards, John
>> XPIs are just ZIP files with a non-standard extension, so you can use a ZIP
>> utility to unzip it and then copy the *.aff and *.dic files into the
>> appropriate directory in Program Files.
>>
>> Make sure Tb is closed when you do so, then restart it and set your spelling
>> Preferences. . . .

> Tried this with no success - Tb 2 declines to recognise any dictionary

> present. On attempting installation from within Tb2 the en-GB
> downloads fine, but then message appears that "British English
> Dictionary 1.19 could not be installed because it is not compatible
> with Firefox (sic) 2.0.0.3. British English Dictionary 1.19 will only
> work with Firefox (sic) versions from 2.0b1 to 2.0b2"
> I am installing in Thunderbird (not Firefox) and I am downloading the
> Thunderbird dictionary!
> Any more suggestions?
> Thanks
>

disable extension compatibility check:
goto Tools>Options>Advanced>general>Config Editor
right click > New > boolean

name of preference : extensions.checkCompatibility
value : false.
restart TB, now try to install that .xpi file
["http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkCompatibility"]

[dillinger]

Rename it to british_english_dictionary-1.19-fx+zm+tb.zip, unzip it and
copy en-GB.dic and en-GB.aff to C:\Program Files\Mozilla
Thunderbird\dictionaries.

Michel.

[silv...@googlemail.com]

On 2 Apr, 02:44, Nir <nir....@hotmail.com> wrote:

Thank you.
In the meantime (40 minutes!) I had found this (http://
kb.mozillazine.org/Updating_extensions) proving as always there is
more than one way to skin a cat.
I prefer the disable route for ease of use.

[Brian Heinrich]

On 2007-04-02 01:04 (-0600 UTC), silv...@googlemail.com wrote:

> On 2 Apr, 01:28, Brian Heinrich <brian.mozi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2007-04-01 16:54 (-0600 UTC), John wrote:
>>
>>> Since my copy of Thunderbird upgraded itself the spellcheck extension no
>>> longer works. I've tried downloading both but the spellcheck installer tells
>>> me the spellcheck is incompatible with the version of Thunderbird I'm using.
>>> Simple question: What is highest compatible versions of Thunderbird and
>>> English (GB not USA) spell checkers?
>>> Regards, John
>> XPIs are just ZIP files with a non-standard extension, so you can use a ZIP
>> utility to unzip it and then copy the *.aff and *.dic files into the
>> appropriate directory in Program Files.
>>
>> Make sure Tb is closed when you do so, then restart it and set your spelling
>> Preferences. . . .
>

> Tried this with no success - Tb 2 declines to recognise any dictionary
> present. On attempting installation from within Tb2 the en-GB
> downloads fine, but then message appears that "British English
> Dictionary 1.19 could not be installed because it is not compatible
> with Firefox (sic) 2.0.0.3. British English Dictionary 1.19 will only
> work with Firefox (sic) versions from 2.0b1 to 2.0b2"
> I am installing in Thunderbird (not Firefox) and I am downloading the
> Thunderbird dictionary!
> Any more suggestions?

Yes -- what I'd originally suggested: rather than trying to install the
dictionary, extract the archive and manually copy over the files.

I've been doing something like this for years, because the (original) en-CA
dictionary wasn't ASCII-sorted and I was getting a performance hit.
Interestingly, I just downloaded the current en-CA XPI, extracted it, and
looked at the *.dic file, and not that it /is/ ASCII-sorted . . . but the
en-US and en-GB dictionaries aren't.

There should only be one dictionary file for each language. . . .

[Tony Raven]

I have it running on TB2.0RC1 but the location of the dictionary files
has changed and I had to copy it there manually.

--
Tony

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