Having installed British versions of the ispell and words packages, they were overwritten with the American version when I upgraded to RH6. ispell needs to be provided with local distionaries, and some way of retaining the desired settings across an upgrade.
FWIW I've added the British dictonary to ispell, although the English dictionary is still American. AFAIK a couple of symlinks should permit you to change the deafulat English to British. If you send a pointer/copy of British /usr/dict/words, I will try to include a locale specific /usr/dict/words. Adding support for local dictionaries seems barely worth the effort at this time. Pleases send a pointer to a better dictionary for inclusion in the ispell package instead. ------- Additional Comments From 09/20/99 12:26 ------- An SRPM of British words is in the libc5 contrib. If this is what you've included in ispell, then I don't know of anything better. That's been good enough for us for some time, though. It's not really the lack of UK dictionaries that I considered a bug, but the fact that after I'd gone to the trouble of finding and installing them, the RH6 upgrade removed them again for me. Perhaps they should be marked as config files? I've now just ditched ispell and replaced it with aspell - which is possibly a good solution for Lorax, too. It allows fairly simple system-wide and/or user configuration of dictionaries, and I believe it also has separate language dictionaries in separate RPMS, which have would fixed my original problem.
Since we now install many different dictionaries, including british, this should have been a one-time inconvenience.