diff -Naur scribus-1.3.3.orig/scribus/scribus.cpp scribus-1.3.3/scribus/scribus.cpp
--- scribus-1.3.3.orig/scribus/scribus.cpp	2006-03-27 11:59:14.000000000 +0200
+++ scribus-1.3.3/scribus/scribus.cpp	2006-03-31 12:20:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -8129,7 +8129,7 @@
 	//Grab the language abbreviation from it, get the full language text
 	//Insert the name as key and a new string list into the map
 	QString hyphDirName = QDir::convertSeparators(ScPaths::instance().libDir() + "dicts/");
-	QDir hyphDir(hyphDirName, "*.dic", QDir::Name, QDir::Files | QDir::NoSymLinks);
+	QDir hyphDir(hyphDirName, "*.dic", QDir::Name, QDir::Files);
 	if ((hyphDir.exists()) && (hyphDir.count() != 0))
 	{
 		LanguageManager langmgr;