3 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lingucomponent/source/lingutil/lingutil.cxx b/lingucomponent/source/lingutil/lingutil.cxx
index c0ef851f46a2..ab2244ba8ef7 100644
--- a/lingucomponent/source/lingutil/lingutil.cxx
+++ b/lingucomponent/source/lingutil/lingutil.cxx
@@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ using ::com::sun::star::lang::Locale;
 using namespace ::com::sun::star;
 
 #if defined(WNT)
+
+OString Win_AddLongPathPrefix( const OString &rPathName )
+{
+#define WIN32_LONG_PATH_PREFIX "\\\\?\\"
+  if (!rPathName.match(WIN32_LONG_PATH_PREFIX)) return WIN32_LONG_PATH_PREFIX + rPathName;
+  return rPathName;
+}
+
 OString Win_GetShortPathName( const OUString &rLongPathName )
 {
     OString aRes;
diff --git a/lingucomponent/source/lingutil/lingutil.hxx b/lingucomponent/source/lingutil/lingutil.hxx
index f5f1d76356c8..5319661399c5 100644
--- a/lingucomponent/source/lingutil/lingutil.hxx
+++ b/lingucomponent/source/lingutil/lingutil.hxx
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ inline sal_Bool operator == ( const ::com::sun::star::lang::Locale &rL1, const :
 }
 
 #if defined(WNT)
+
+// to be use to get a path name with long path prefix
+// under Windows for Hunspell
+OString Win_AddLongPathPrefix( const OString &rPathName );
+
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // to be use to get a short path name under Windows that still can be used with
 // the 'fopen' call. This is necessary since under Windows there seems to be
diff --git a/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/spell/sspellimp.cxx b/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/spell/sspellimp.cxx
index 1809efe96b95..cf3d26f7afa7 100644
--- a/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/spell/sspellimp.cxx
+++ b/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/spell/sspellimp.cxx
@@ -315,8 +315,8 @@ sal_Int16 SpellChecker::GetSpellFailure( const OUString &rWord, const Locale &rL
                     // about 120+ characters which will usually be exceed when
                     // using dictionaries as extensions. (Hunspell waits UTF-8 encoded
                     // path with \\?\ long path prefix.)
-                    OString aTmpaff = OUStringToOString(aff, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8);
-                    OString aTmpdict = OUStringToOString(dict, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8);
+                    OString aTmpaff = Win_AddLongPathPrefix(OUStringToOString(aff, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8));
+                    OString aTmpdict = Win_AddLongPathPrefix(OUStringToOString(dict, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8));
 #else
                     OString aTmpaff(OU2ENC(aff,osl_getThreadTextEncoding()));
                     OString aTmpdict(OU2ENC(dict,osl_getThreadTextEncoding()));