How to manually remove US English spellchecker

[Herb]

I generally write in British English or German, and I therefore have the
British English and German spellcheckers/dictionaries installed in TB.

I seem to remember that US English is 'hard-wired' into the TB code as
the default, i.e. it isn't part of the user profile. Some time ago (with
help from this group) I managed to manually remove the US English
spellchecker by manipulating one of the TB files, but I can't remember
or find the details.

The reason for writing this message is that on my PC I only have British
English and German in TB, but on my new laptop I have US English,
British English and German, and I want to remove US English.

Thanks in advance.

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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk

[WaltS]

The US English spell checker is 'hard wired' into the English (British)
version of Thundrebird?

<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html>

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Thunderbird Daily 24.0a1

[Was Greywolf]

You can get a number of different dictionaries for TB. Just download the
one you want, and make it the default, like this:
Open a New Message window, click on spelling, click on the down
arrow in the Language box, and select the language (dictionary).

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Best,
Wolf K.

[rebro]

Is this really a problem? In my TB 17.0.6 the "United States English
Spellchecker 7.0.1" is placed in the dictionaries section of the Addons
Manager and has a remove button like the other extensions.

[Herb]

Thanks. Perhaps the British English version wasn't available at the
time. It was years ago when I removed the US spellchecker. How can I
check which version I'm running?

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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk

[Herb]

Thanks, but I want to remove a dicationary, not add one.

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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk

[Herb]

In my case the US spellchecker appears 'hard-wired'. I have the British
and German dictionaries under add-ons, but not US English.

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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk

[James Silverton]

Why do you need both the US and British versions? I'm an American, I use
American spelling (mostly) and I can live with the spell checker griping
about an occasional British spelling. Of course, if I were to use a
British spelling consistently, I would add it to the dictionary.

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James Silverton ( NOT not.jim.silverton)

[Herb]

On 16.05.2013 15:16 UK Time, James Silverton wrote:
> On 5/16/2013 9:51 AM, Herb wrote:
>> On 16.05.2013 14:02 UK Time, rebro wrote:
>>> Am 16.05.2013 14:36, schrieb Herb:
>>>> I generally write in British English or German, and I therefore have
>>>> the
>>>> British English and German spellcheckers/dictionaries installed in TB.
>>>>
>>>> I seem to remember that US English is 'hard-wired' into the TB code as
>>>> the default, i.e. it isn't part of the user profile. Some time ago
>>>> (with
>>>> help from this group) I managed to manually remove the US English
>>>> spellchecker by manipulating one of the TB files, but I can't remember
>>>> or find the details.
>>>>
>>>> The reason for writing this message is that on my PC I only have
>>>> British
>>>> English and German in TB, but on my new laptop I have US English,
>>>> British English and German, and I want to remove US English.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is this really a problem? In my TB 17.0.6 the "United States English
>>> Spellchecker 7.0.1" is placed in the dictionaries section of the Addons
>>> Manager and has a remove button like the other extensions.
>>
>> In my case the US spellchecker appears 'hard-wired'. I have the British
>> and German dictionaries under add-ons, but not US English.
>>
> Why do you need both the US and British versions?

I don't. I want to remove the US version.

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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk

[WaltS]

That seems to be a hot question right now, as there seems to be no easy
way to tell from the application.

There is a post in m.s.firefox asking the same question.

Thanks to Chris Ilias the answer is you have to do it the hard (geek) way.

Adapted for Thunderbird on Mac.

1. Thunderbird > Preferences.
2. Advanced Tab > Config Editor
3. Click [I'll be careful, I Promise!]
4. Search for the preference:
intl.accept_languages

You should see en-gb, en for the British version, or en-US, en for the
US version.

HTH

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Thunderbird Release
(Why's everybody always picking on me)
"Charlie Brown" by The Coasters - 1958

[rebro]

Could you possibly break up this state of being 'hard-wired' by
overriding/replacing your present install with the en-GB version of TB
(<ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/17.0.6/win32/>)?

[pen]

Try in your profile under extensions find a dictionary
folder and delete the en.dic file.

[WaltS]

I installed the 64-bit en-GB version on my system, created a new profile
for it, skipped setting up an email account, checked the Composition >
Spelling > Language, and there was none listed.

My en-US version has English/United States listed.

Downloaded and installed the British English dictionary, and after a
restart I now see English/United Kingdom in the preferences of my en-GB
version.

[Herb]

Splendid, thank you. I'm on Windows, but I know about Config Editor (and
yes, I'm careful :-) ). It turns out that on my PC I have the British
version whereas on my laptop I have the US version, which I dare say
explains the situation.

I dare say the solution, as suggested by rebro, is to override/replace
the present install on the laptop with the en-GB version of TB. The
question is how, exactly?

WaltS also replied along similar lines, but I'm not sure the reply
explained the process of replacing the US version with the British version.

Perhaps I should simply uninstall TB (which should retain my profile)
and then install the British version? Can't do any harm really, because
if something in my profiles gets broken it would be rectified anyway
next time I update my user data on the laptop with the user data from
the PC, right?

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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk

[Herb]

This appears to have worked 8-)

By the way, I just noticed that the language version shows up in the
list of installed programs in the Control Panel.

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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk

[Swifty]

On 16/05/2013 15:16, James Silverton wrote:
> Why do you need both the US and British versions?

I presume this is intellectual curiosity, which I can satisfy, having
both British and US English dictionaries active.

I worked for IBM, an organisation steeped in US English despite that "I"
in "IBM". It is always a distraction to have US spellings and words
highlighted as incorrect, so I prefer to live with the occasional false
acceptance of something which is slightly wrong.

I'm still waiting for the spelling checker that will accept "deja vu" as
correct English whilst rejecting both "deja" and "vu" in other contexts.

[James Silverton]

Yes, it was partially just curiosity since I don't find it necessary to
use British spelling in emails. I'm not a professional writer aiming at
a particular market and I wouldn't use Thunderbird but a certain word
processing program if I felt a need for precise spelling.