Goal: spellchecker does not work when the spellchecker presence is checked
      by spellchecking an empty string.

Status wrt upstream: Not reported yet.

--- a/translate/filters/spelling.py
+++ b/translate/filters/spelling.py
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@
         if not lang in checkers:
             try:
                 checkers[lang] = checker.SpellChecker(lang)
-                # some versions only report an error when checking something
-                checkers[lang].check('')
             except EnchantError, e:
                 # sometimes this is raised instead of DictNotFoundError
                 print >> sys.stderr, str(e)
