How to enable spell-checking in different languages in Pidgin in Linux | Linux Today

How to enable spell-checking in different languages in Pidgin in Linux

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Jun 25, 2014

Obviously it is very nice if you can write to your friends in well-formed language. Very few people like misspellings. Pidgin has a built-in functionality that can do spellchecking for you. It highlights words you type with errors.

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