Spell check feature in many programs

Hey-
In many programs, pidgin, tomboy, etc, I have the squiggly lines under my words as if they're misspelled. Is there one place where I set a dictionary, or can I set these program up to use openoffice's dictionary, gnome's dictionary, or firefox's dictionaries?
Really, i dont have a clue about this, all I know is that in other distros that's been done automatically so i dont know how to do it manually now.
Thanks
Miesnerd

I am pretty sure pidgin uses Aspell, possibly through GtkSpell. I know for certain that Tomboy uses GtkSpell. So you're going to need the Aspell dictionaries for the languages you want installed. Then it is dependent on locale which language it uses with English as default if the correct dictionaries aren't installed.
However, I know that for example for pidgin there is a plugin: http://plugins.guifications.org/trac/wiki/switchspell to set spell check languages... even different for each contact. I think there may be some system-wide way to do it but I haven't seen any.

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