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Mention workaround from issue #2
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or similarly named folder under user's home folder.
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- On Linux:
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ZHFST speller dictionaries can be placed under /etc/voikko/3
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Note about using this extension in Thunderbird
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Thunderbird does not properly support the new Mozilla spellchecker API (see bug
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500606). Due to this issue
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the inline spell checker may not be available for the languages supported by
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this extension. Patches to Thunderbird to implement this feature are very
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welcome. Until then there are two known workarounds for this issue:
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- The safe option:
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Use the "Check spelling" dialog instead of inline spell checker for spell checking.
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- The dangerous option (MAY BREAK SPELL CHECKING IN OTHER APPLICATIONS):
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Create a fake Hunspell dictionary for your language in order to enable the inline
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spell checker. Empty files will be sufficient. For example to do Finnish spell
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checking on Linux you can run the following command:
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touch /usr/share/myspell/fi_FI.dic ; touch /usr/share/myspell/fi_FI.aff

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