Spell checker/Other languages

Unlike other applications I can't seem to change the dictionary file on iWeb so right now I'm stuck with american english, any way around this or some way to let the developers know they forgot something?

There does not appear to be an option in iWeb for spelling but, for me at least, it seems to pick up on the International settings you have in System preferences.
I tried this by typing colour and color - the US version was highlighted as wrong giving colour as the correct version. Despite looking everywhere I can't find an option to change language so check to ensure your language settings are correct (I think you need to restart if you make changes).
Best of luck,
Michael

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Text and spell check in languages other than English

I am a linguist who writes papers primarily in English, but which contain a significant number of words and paragraphs in other languages. Is there a way (as there is in MSWord) to highlight these words and passages and choose a different language for them so that the spell checker does not see them as English misspelled words.
Even better would be for the spell checker to identify eventual errors in these paragraphs of foreign languages: However, when I choose EDIT > SPELLING > SPELLING... the spelling checker window has no button or menu allowing the user to select different languages or language dictionaries.
I know that Mail does it automatically for the languages provided. Is there anything comparable in Pages?
Most of the alternative languages I use are quite common, i.e. French, Spanish, Portuguese.

drew,
Select your paragraph, click on the Text Inspector, More button, then select the language from the menu.
-Dennis

Spell checking multiple languages

I would like Mail to do spell checking while i type, but determine automatically the language the message is written in. (sometimes i write English mails, sometimes German.)
Any ideas or hints, how i could Mail perform that feat?
Best regards,
Gabriel.

How about changing languages in
Dictionary.app?
Not possible, currently only one (English) dictionary available for that.

Spell-checker keeps changing to US English when system language order is changed

When I switch the order of preferred system languages in System Preferences' Language and Text section, the spell-checker's language often changes to 'US English', even though it's disabled on my computer as I prefer the British spell-checker. My current preferred language order is 'British English', followed by 'English' and 'German'. US English is completely disabled as a system language. When I go and check the 'spelling' option in the Language and Text panel, the spelling is set to US English (even if it had British English set before, which it has done since I initially set up my language options) and I have to see unsightly red underlines under words like colour and realise. Whilst this is easy to change I would rather not have to constantly change it back to British every time I do this. Does anyone else experience this, and is there a way to prevent the US English zombie from rising again?
I'm using OS X 10.8.4.

fatal exception wrote:
generic English (which is just a general 'English' category when selecting a system language; US English is its own separate setting that you can use to explicitly prefer American localisations in software
It may be a general category, but in practice I have never seen a piece a software where English will give any other localization than American English. Have you?
I doubt that switching OS languages is something many people do more than once. Still, you are right that it should go back to the original setting. Let Apple know via
http://www.apple.com/feedback

Pages for iPad - multilingual spell check

Is there any way to spell check multiple languages in Pages for the iPad (or the iWork apps in general, for that matter), short of changing the system language every time?
I routinely write in English, German and French. In most apps, including Mail, SMS and Notes, spell-checking automatically adapts to the keyboard layout chosen, and multilingual typing is a breeze. Not so in iWork, it seems.
I am currently working on a German document in Pages on my iPad, and the only way I could get usable spell-checking was to switch the whole system to German, which seems like overkill.
Am I missing something?

No, you are not missing anything. The last version of iWork for iOS (1.4) is out today, but still has the same problem. Send feedback to Apple and make yourself heard here in the forums. Maybe they'll notice.
I have the exact same problem. My solution is, unfortunately, not to use Pages on the iPad. Every other word processing app I know of uses the language of the selected keyboard to check the spelling.
The irony is, iOS already has a beautiful system to handle documents in many languages, with all the necessary keyboards and dictionaries. The only apps that do not make use of all that are the ones from Apple...

Can pages spell check in Spanish?

My daughter is doing a paper for her Spanish class, and would like to spell check the document, Does Pages have the capability to spell check in languages other than English?
Thanks for any and all helpful info.

Aha, so that's the reason you're going after me. You've decided that what I posted today has zero to do with a poster who posted years ago, so I need to have my hand slapped.
Can I point out that the title of this thread is "can pages spell check in Spanish?" The title didn't limit the question to one particular version.
Do you not realize that for everyone who writes a post about their problem there are many other people who simply search the archives to get their problem addressed? Instead of posting a brand new question they search the archives and solve their own problems without ever being detected. The lurkers as they are often called.
Take me for example, I was searching this very issue today, came across this very post, and the solution you offered back in January of 2012 didn't work for me. So, I poked around in Pages until I found the current solution to my current version of Pages. And, I added it to the discussion for the sake of others like me who might find the January 2012 solution not workable for them either. So, they wouldn't have to poke around and work it out for themselves.
I hope this is not how you treat everyone who contributes to the knowledge base. Try to be a little patient if you will with the ones of us who don't hang around here day in and day out. While we may not know your rules for the sandbox, we're just trying to be helpful. No need to come after us with your guns blazing.

Bilingual spell-checking?

I used to be able to type sentences mixing French and English and OS X would correctly spell-check both languages at the same time using the "bilingual" dictionary option. It seems that Snow Leopard has replaced the "bilingual" option with "automatic" language detection which looks at the words typed and then spell-checks only for the first language encountered. This is a huge step backward. Is there a way to revert to the previous "bilingual" behavior?

Mark Alan Thomas wrote:
For example, in Leopard, using the "multilingual" setting, I could type the following sentence —
+"Je vais dire" means "I'm going to say" in French.+
— and Leopard would not flag any words as misspelled because everything is correctly spelled even though I've mixed French and English in the same sentence. Super useful.
I disagree. I had Multilingual turned on and then I realized that it was ignoring all my misspellings because they were correct in some particular language or dialect. As an American living in Canada, I don't want to have to keep track of how many l's are in any particular word.
However, in Snow Leopard using the "automatic" setting the words "vais" and "means" get flagged as misspelled (though, actually, it's inconsistent) even though both the English and French dictionaries are enabled. Useless!
Again, I disagree. Have you setup spelling in Snow Leopard to only check French and English? Go to System Preferences -> Text Preferences -> Spelling -> Setup and uncheck everything bug French and English.
I just typed your sentence with only French and (American) English enabled and no misspellings.

Spell check in other languages

I have Pages '06 in enlgish, but I write documents in english and in spanish, how can I spell check my documents in spanish?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) iWork '06

Hello FiGu
Welcome to the discussions.
This is a very frequently asked question, it's worth doing a search on these discussions before posting. You might get your answer more quickly.
Anyway the language used for spell checking any particular paragraph is controlled by the Language setting for it. You can adjust this in the More section of the Text Inspector.
If you start a new document based upon one of the built-in templates, this language setting will default to the one that you have top of your list in the Language section of International System Preferences.
The language of a paragraph in Pages is associated with the paragraph style. You might find it helpful to create a couple of templates with the language settings adjusted appropriately.
I've never tried but you might be able to do this quickly by setting the system language, opening Pages so that it is working in say Spanish, open up some of the pre-defined templates and saving them as your own template. This may retain the language setting.
Just in case you didn't know, when you change the language preferences and restart Pages, the menus will change to the language at the top of the list and the content of the built-in templates changes. This is provided the language at the top of the list is supported by Pages, if not it will go down the preferences until it finds one it does support.
Also, again in case you didn't know, you can change the input language regardless of the mode your application is in. This makes it quicker to type accented characters. This is controlled by the Input Menu portion of International System Preferences. It's best to get the icon shown in your menu bar so that you can toggle between input languages easily.
I hope that helps

Spell checking in other languages using Pages for iPad

Does anybody know how to spell check a document in a language other than the primary language? For example the iPad is using English but I want to write a letter in German.
This was simple to do using Pages on the Mac. So far I'm stumped.

kennethfromtoronto wrote:
From Settings General International. Select keyboards and add the language(s) of your choice. Tou will now have a spell checker and word predicter for the selected languages.
Did you actually try this with Pages? In the past this app had a bug where switching the keyboard did not work, you had to switch the OS language, as was stated earlier in this discussion. If that is now fixed, that is good to hear.

Keyboard input in other languages - How to turn off spell checker?

I have been trying to send text messages on the iPhone in my native language and it kept replacing all the words with english words. I have tried to turn off the spell checking, but no luck. I have asked the Apple Store employees, no luck there either. How can I type my messages in languages other than english? I don't need a spell checker in my language, I just want an option to turn off the english one.

Input is essentially English only for this version of the iPhone.
To convey your request to Apple, use this channel so they will see it rather than just other users like yourself:
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Pages, other languages, spell check

I have Pages 08 and it serves me well but recently I have needed to use other languages and check spelling. Is there a language pack? Do I have to buy the new version? Other software? Anyone know? I'll bet someone does.
I have tried changing the language in Inspector and in system preferences but it doesn't seem to take effect. Meanwhile Mail is doing spell checks from what I guess is the source to do this.

Language is an attribute of the text (like bold or color etc) so you have to select the text and apply a language to it from the Inspector.
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Peter

Writing in pages in Afrikaans. Spellcheck keep on correcting to dutch. Switched off spell check and checkeed keyaboard settings. Where do I get languages other than what Apple offer and where is the dictionary, Library, spelling files.

Writing in pages in Afrikaans. Spellcheck keep on correcting to dutch. Switched off spell check and also looked in System preferences - keyboard. this stops the "Auto-correct" but does not help me with Afrikaans or other language spell check. Where do I get languages other than what Apple offer and where is the dictionary, Library, spelling files.

You are basically limited to what Apple deigns to offer.
Try LibreOffice [free] which has a huge selection of languages.
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How to use multiple languages at the same time for spell checking?

I use two different languages all the time and words are mostly so different (English and Finnish) that I could have spell checking on for both languages at the same time.
Now it seem to allow to select only one language at the time and I have to switch back and fort zillion of times per day.

Thanks for the quick answer.
The Dictionary Switcher doesn't seem to work with Finnish language, it doesn't detect it at all to be one of the choices although in the Firefox context menu Languages -> Finnish/Finland is shown.
Also, if it would work, I would need to get rid of multiple EN_* langauges. I just need EN_UK or EN_US, not all 22 different EN_*.
One option would be to create a custom dictionary, which would have words from both languages. The next task is then to find out how to make this kind of custom ENFI-dictionary, which would have words from both English and Finnish languages.
Finnish may be a some kind of special case for spell checking anyway, because the support is in its separate plugin:
http://voikko.sourceforge.net/

Hi, can someone please tell me why the spell check in pages doesn't work. I went to preferences and enabled this auto spell checker and have set the language to british english. But still it doesn't work while it works perfectly in TextEdit.

Hi, can someone please tell me why the spell check in pages doesn't work. I went to preferences and enabled this auto spell checker and have set the language to british english. But still it doesn't work while it works perfectly in TextEdit.

Inspector > Text > More > Language
Only applies to selected text, like making it a particular font.
It is not a setting that sticks. If you continue to paste in text from elsewhere particularly the Internet it will have a different or None language set to it. You need to select it and make it B.E.
Peter

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