No spelling warnings without specifying LANG=en_US.UTF-8 on Linux

[dpavlic]

I am having trouble with getting spell check to work. Just running Atom and toggling spell check, I get no spelling warnings.

The LANG environment variable on my system is set to en_CA.UTF-8. Running Atom directly from the terminal via LANG=en_US.UTF-8 works and gives me American spelling warnings. Any ideas as to what could be the issue?

[lee-dohm]

Which version of Atom are you running?

[Ehekatl]

same here on windows 10, atom 1.7.2, it used to work without specify LANG in env settings (I'm using chinese version of windows, English language is installed)

[JAAdrian]

Same problem here since 1.7.2 (or maybe earlier?) and I can reproduce the fix from @dpavlic.

Xubuntu 16.04 (German)

[lee-dohm]

@OJFord could this be related to your change #114?

[dpavlic]

Also on the 1.7.2.

[OJFord]

@lee-dohm I haven't experienced this, but I don't think I've used latest build yet. Odd - possibly something else has changed that's set hard to en_US?

If someone wants to try reverting atom/node-spellchecker#33 on their system - it's an easy one-line change - we'll know more, I would but I don't have access to it at the moment.

Actually - @dpavlic - what happens if you keep en_CA but launch atom from the terminal with that environment?

[cokelly]

I tried reverting atom/node-spellchecker#33 as per OJFord's suggestion above and the spell check is working again. Atom 1.7.2; Spell-check 0.67.0, Arch Linux; $LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

[sumdog]

My LANG was set to en_NZ.utf8

I set LANG to be both en_US and en_US.utf8 and both of those worked.

I'm pretty sure I have the NZ dictionaries installed. Even so, if lang_region isn't found, spell check libraries like Hunspell should fall back to the fist available lang.

This was working on an earlier version (see marked duplicate)