Hello,

since my update to plasma5, my kmail spell checker does not work correctly anymore.
It marks every word with German Umlauts as wrong and suggests a wrongly encoded version of the same word.
I'm using hunspell-de and saw that the dicts in /usr/share/hunspell are ISO encoded (and a content line says "SET ISO8859-1")
So I tried iconv'ing them (and changed the content line from ISO to UTF).
That at least made kmail to correct the Umlaut words with rightly encoded versions (so actually replace it with the same word again) - which is still marked as wrong

(Same malfunction in kate)
The shell however doesn't show errors:

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echo "Gleichgroß" > test.txt
hunspell -d de_DE test.txt

kmail: kmail2 5.0.1 (Arch package kmail15.08.1-1)
plasma-workspace: 5.4.1-2

Does anybody know a solution for that?

Please file a bug at bugs.kde.org. Someone else on IRC mentioned the same issue: reporting a bug will make sure that the developers are aware of it. File it under kmail2, component "message composer" or "composer" (I don't have the list at hand, so I'm going from memory). Please post the link here once you did so, so that I can refer people to that bug.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353133

And it has now been fixed, thanks to KDE developer Millian Wolff: http://commits.kde.org/sonnet/a8bc5db82 ... 0415b3efa4

The fix will land with the next version of the KDE Frameworks 5, meaning in a few weeks. You may want to ask your distros to include this patch in their packages.