After years of struggle, I think I found a solution. By starting XChat as LANG=hu:en xchat
it seems working the way I want it. For now.
The answer came from: http://toxin.jottit.com/xchat_spell_checking
Я использую Xubuntu 10.10. Язык системы не английский (на самом деле это венгерский язык), однако я хотел бы использовать проверку орфографии на английском языке в XChat. Это вообще возможно?
After years of struggle, I think I found a solution. By starting XChat as LANG=hu:en xchat
it seems working the way I want it. For now.
The answer came from: http://toxin.jottit.com/xchat_spell_checking