Re: Changing the default spelling dictionary to British English

[Peter Flynn]

On 08/03/11 23:57, Andreas Politz wrote:
> Peter Flynn<peter@silmaril.ie>  writes:
>
> > how to change the default spellcheck dictionary from American English
> > to British English (permanently)
>
> M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET TAB

Interesting. That gives me a choice of american or default. Only.

Easy to fix, but I would have expected a recent Ubuntu (10.4) where 
en-GB was specified to have installed ispell correctly.

> Pick the-right-one and put
>
> (setq ispell-dictionary "the-right-one")

Finding the right name was the trick, many thanks.

And thanks to all those who responded.

///Peter