Change Spell Check language according to keyboard selected

Hi,
Is there a way to have spell check automatically change its language according to which keyboard is selected from the international menulet? This would seem to be logical...

I've been thinking about the same thing. How hard would it be to enable that?
Just recently I finally figured out how to install and use dictionaries with cocoAspell, the ones not available under Leopard. That was a huge step forward, but now that I can, I don't want to have to keep changing between languages. I'd love the spell checker setting to have an option to follow the keyboard layout, or be able to set shortcuts for languages. Or something.

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Casey,
You can do this through the Paragraph Designer:
1. In the Paragraph Designer go to the Fonts tab.
2. Press Shift+F8 to set everything to "As Is".
3. Set the Language option to what you want.
4. Click on the Commands button in the lower left and select "Global Update Opttions"
5. Select "Default Font Properties Only" in the" Use Properties in the Paragraph Designer" option at the top,
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It's best to do this in a template and then import the revised tempalte to all of the documents that require the updated language.
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Change spell checker language

just moved to Norway, and for school, I'll have to right stuff in norwegian. I found no way to change the language for the spell checker in Pages, Text Edit, and other programs. Is there a way to do this?

just tried it and it works how it's supposed to I guess, but Norwegian is not an option for the spell checker,
Sorry about that, forgot that for Norwegian you need to install Cocoaspell:
http://people.ict.usc.edu/~leuski/cocoaspell/
and changing system prefs. just changes my keyboard layout…
You change system prefs/international/languages (not input menu).

Changing spell check language

If I select the text I need to check the Character panel shows the proper language, but once I deselect it changes to the default 'English: USA'. With that, check spelling simply doesn't work because it assumes the default only.
How on earth can I perform this simple task?!
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Thanks Monika for your reply.
So according to what you say language is a document attribute (not character), which is absurd since it makes impossible to deal with more than one language in the same doc.
I guess an external application is required then. Bad!

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I suspect this is a bug, but maybe I am doing something wrong, so I'll ask here before submitting a bug report.
I have Thunderbird 31.2.0 installed on OS X Mavericks. I am pretty sure it is the en-GB version, but I have several language packs installed, including the (presumably redundant) en-GB pack. I also have installed (and sometimes uninstalled) the add-ons "Quick Locale Switcher" and "Simple Locale Switcher" at various times to switch the user interface language. (The reason I have included the two is, I had the "Quick" switcher first, and suspected what I was seeing might be a bug in the add-on, so I switched to the other.)
Now, the symptom. When the user interface language is set as en-GB, the spell-checker language choice in the "Preferences" menu (I guess "Options" in Windows, and I don't know what in Linux) is respected - I can type an email in one language, stop, switch the spell-checker language half way through, and the real-time spell-checking is then by the new language exactly as I would have expected. But, when the user interface language is anything other than en-GB (I haven't tried en-US, but I have tried German and Russian), the spell-check language follows the user interface language, and changing the spell-check language option in the "Preferences" menu has no effect whatsoever on anything.
This problem persisted even after I removed the two language-switching add-ons. Then, I removed all the language packs (which forced my user interface back into en-GB), and magically the spell-check language selection started working again.
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The "Simple Locale Switcher" does not seem to allow the user interface language and the spell-check language to be switched independently, but "Quick Locale Switcher" does. However, this feature doesn't seem to work, nor does switching the spell-check language through the Thunderbird Preferences rather than the add-on (unless the user interface language is the default en-GB).
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Before chasing dragons, right click in the body of a mail in the compose window and set the spell check language there. I have no idea if it will work, but it might add to the over all body of knowledge for a bug report.
Please post a link to any bug report you make.

How do you change the Spell Check language

I have a question, how do you change the spell check language so that it spell checks in a different language... such as French?

Here is a copy of an e-mail that I sent to Yvan asking about this (translated from French):
+Hello Yvan,+
+I saw your answer SirCram's message (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7526551&#7526551) in which you showed a dialogue box called "text"+
+Sadly, I have only recently started using a Mac (and I am therefore unfamiliar with Pages) so I find no way to open said box.+
+Could you please make me a list of instructions or show me an Apple Support page that would assist this recent Mac convert in learning this simple action?+
+Thank-you in advance,+
+Jean-Paul J+

How do I change spell checker and dictionary to Spanish in Pages 8

How do I change spell checker and dictionary to Spanish in Pages 8

Rony,
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Delete spell check languages

Hi,
I type with a mixture of british english and french and I switch way too often to change it in the spell check every time so I put the spell check language to multilingual. But there's too many languages in the list and I'm afraid that a misspelt word can be a valid one in italian or portuguese or american english and make me overlook the error. Is there a way for me to get rid of the languages I won't use?
And one more question about the spell check. Does the language selection affect the spell check in every Cocoa program? And is "multilingual" only an intermediate state for the language setting and change as soon as I start typing a few words and it decides which language I'm typing it?
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Is there a way for me to get rid of the languages I won't use?
I don't think so.
Does the language selection affect the spell check in every Cocoa program?
I think you choose the dictionary for each app independently. The default is determined by what language is at the top of system prefs/international/languages.
And is "multilingual" only an intermediate state for the language setting and change as soon as I start typing a few words and it decides which language I'm typing it?
An app has no way to figure out what language you are typing in. It just applies whatever dictionary you have chosen.

Default spell check language is being stubborn

Pages '09 insists on using Spanish as the default spell check language.
I checked System Preferences -> International -> Language and English was the language listed at the top of the list. For good measure I deleted the other languages as I don't speak any of them.
I have rebooted, my default language continues to be English. However whenever I spell check a new document it defaults to Spanish. I have to manually set it back to English.
Why would this be happening?

When you open a clean unaltered blank *Word Processing mode* template and type something into it, what language is it checking there?
Have you checked when clicked in the blank template:
+Inspector > Text > More > Language > what language is selected?+
You are not mistaking the Ipsum Facto latin placeholder text for Spanish by any chance?
Peter

Many spell-checking languages

Hi,
Is it possible to install many languages in spell-checker? I am writing both in English and Polish and need to be able to change spell-checking quickly like I used to do with Chrome or Firefox.

system prefs/language & text/text/spelling Go to setup at the bottom of the menu and check the appropriate boxes.
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I know this question has been asked a few times before but I just cannot fix it on my iMac or MBP. I am running Snow Leopard (still too scared to upgrade to Lion) and want to globally change my spell-check to British.
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I know this question has been asked a few times before but I just cannot fix it on my iMac or MBP. I am running Snow Leopard (still too scared to upgrade to Lion) and want to globally change my spell-check to British.
I have tried everything. Every option in the System Preferences where I can change the language to British I have done and also changed the preferences in each application by right-clicking the underlined text, selecting 'spelling and gramma' and setting the dropdown to British English. All to no avail. As soon as I go back to TextEdit or something and type 'colour' it's telling me to change it to 'color'. Infuriating!
Does anyone have any clue? The irony is that I managed to make it work as I wanted (no American spellings) on my old MacBook running Snow Leopard but just can't on my newer computers.
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J

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After not using OutlookEexp. for a while, I now find that the language in spell check if French? How do I change to English ? TY

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Somehow someone??? changed the spell check langauge to french ?
Nobody did it. Office 2007 is the culprit.
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Created a footnote style with language set to english but upon spell check language goes to German

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The following GREP expression will find all characters: .+
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