Kate and spell check

Hi! I have a odd problem. I can't seem to change the language for spell checking within the editor Kate? It is possible in Kmail, Kword ..etc but not in Kate. I have to go to the global settings for KDE and change the language in spell check. Any hints? I use SUSE8.1, KDE3.11 and ispell with English and Swedish as possible languages. /Tomas