Bug#557539: iceweasel: Shows too many languages for the spellchecker.

[Kurt Roeckx]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.5-1

Hi,

If you right click on an edit box (textarea?) there is a menu
where you can select languages.  But it's showing all languages
twice.

It for instance shows "English / United states" and "en_US".
The same seems to go for almost all the languages in the list,
like en_GB, nl_NL, nl_BE.  But there are also some exceptions.
There is a "Dutch", together with the 5*2 other combinations
all with a country.  I have various "fr_*" but only 1 "French".

So looking a little closer, I noticed that there are just
as many aff files in /usr/share/hunspell/ than languanges
displayed, and they seem to map like this:
xx -> Language
xx-XX -> Language / Country
xx_XX -> xx_XX

There are both xx-XX and xx_XX files there because not all
software seems to agree on what the proper filename should be.
It's my understanding that mozilla software uses the xx-XX
version while all other uses the xx_XX version.

What I really would like to see is that mozilla switched to
using xx_XX like all the others do.

In any case, it shouldn't be using both xx_XX and xx-XX and
then display "xx_XX" in the language list, since that's not
very user friendly.

It would also be nice if the list of languages was sorted.

If this is the wrong package for this bug, please reassign.
If more mozilla software has this kind of behaviour, please
clone and reassign to everything that needs to get fixed.


Kurt