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my document is not written in Russian, really!

Asked by Brenna Silbory

I am working on a large (>30k words) English document in LibreOffice Writer. Try as I might, I cannot get LibreOffice to understand that it is not Russian. I know this for two reasons: 1) because the status bar says it is Russian, and 2) because the Spelling/Grammar/Autocorrect features are all useless.

I have tried messing around with the language defaults in the Options dialogue window, and changing what is on the status bar. After I did this a fair bit, I even got it to treat my document as English once and point out the (many) poorly spelled words I had overlooked while the spellchecker was inoperable. However, upon rebooting my computer, the re-opened document is once again labelled Russian and I am at a loss. Whatever magic I worked before (the details of which I unfortunately do not recall), I would like to not have to re-work every time I re-open the document.

How to I permanently fix this?

I am a fan of LibreOffice and other open-source software and want to be able to recommend it to others.

Thank you in advance for your help.

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svens (svens) said : 		#1

I solved a similar issue with Chinese characters this by installing a language pack.
Go to: System > Administration > Language support > Install/remove languages.

I hope that helps.

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Brenna Silbory (bsilbory) said : 		#2

Constantin, thanks for trying to help me. I tried to follow your suggestion. When I opened the Language Support dialogue box, it told me "The language support is not installed completely." But when I selected "Install" on this window, and entered my password to authenticate, it started to install but then gave me a warning window that said "Requires installation of untrusted packages: The action would require the installation of packages from not authenticated sources." In the "Details" box, it listed:

hyphen-en-us kde-l10n-engb language-pack-kde-en language-pack-kde-en-base libreoffice-help-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-common libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-za mythes-en-us openoffice.org-hyphenation

I don't seem to be able to move past this point.

However, meanwhile, I found that by coping the document and pasting it unformatted into a new doc, I was able to eliminate the problem and spellcheck is working (at least for now). I will have to go back through and add a lot of formatting, but it is worth it to me at this point.

Thanks again for your suggestion. If you have an idea about the packages issue, above, I would be most grateful.

Brenna

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