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Having upgraded to Thunderbird 38.5.0 on a Windows XP computer, why is Spellchecker inoperative when it is flagged as being active?

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Will1946
Will1946

When clicking on Spellchecker, the Check Spelling dialogue box opens, but is totally blank, despite there being obvious typos in the message. Similarly when sending the message the Check Spelling box is empty. In Tools/Options/Composition, Enable Spell Checker and Check spelling before sending are both flagged.

Can anybody advise please?

When clicking on Spellchecker, the Check Spelling dialogue box opens, but is totally blank, despite there being obvious typos in the message. Similarly when sending the message the Check Spelling box is empty. In Tools/Options/Composition, Enable Spell Checker and Check spelling before sending are both flagged. Can anybody advise please?

Isisombululo esikhethiwe

in the compose window while you have the cursor in the body of an email, right click and select languages.

Is there a dictionary?

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Matt
Matt
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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

in the compose window while you have the cursor in the body of an email, right click and select languages.

Is there a dictionary?

Will1946
Will1946 Umnikazi wombuzo

Thank you very much for you help. It just goes to show that one should never make assumptions - I had assumed that a dictionary would be downloaded with Thunderbird.

Matt
Matt
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On very rare occasions the dictionary goes missing in the upgrade. I have never worked it out, but I think it is probably a non standard distionary installed as an add-on that misses to upgrade update so is marked as incompatible. But I have seen it probably a dozen timed in five years here.

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