System spell checker

When I change the input source from one keyboard to another (e.g. U.S. to German) I would like for the dictionary used by the system spell checker to automatically change to the corresponding language, but I can't seem to find a way to do this. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be grateful.

blakkas wrote:
This was already set to Australian English. See my first picture attached in original post.
Sorry, missed that.
I can't duplicate your problem:
Perhaps try setting up a new user account and see if the problem persists when you are logged into that.

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System Spell Checker 'stuck' on American English

Hi,
Running OS X 10.8.3.
I have my language settings set to Australian English. How ever, when typing in system applications such as Mail, or Notes, the OS X System Spell checker is spell checking based on American English.
For example;
when typing an email, it picks up the word "colour" as being spelt incorrectly (with the squiggly red line under the word).
Amerian English = Color
Australian English = Colour
Please see attached pics where i have Australian English set.
Trouble Shooting I have tried;
• verifying & repairing priveliges
• resetting P-RAM
• change language to American English, restarting, setting to Australian English, restarting
Spoke to AppleCare, they basically ended up telling me to re-install the OS.
Any input or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

blakkas wrote:
This was already set to Australian English. See my first picture attached in original post.
Sorry, missed that.
I can't duplicate your problem:
Perhaps try setting up a new user account and see if the problem persists when you are logged into that.

Can't find the System spell checker custom dictionary

There's no /user/library/spelling.
Opened textedit and misspelled a few words.
Right click - Learn Spelling.
Red squigglies go away so it learned the word.
Looked for any file modified at this time and nothing shows up.
Where's the custom spelling dictionary?
Tried a different user and it's there.

And you've rebooted so we know it isn't like in a Cache?
I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/
Add a unique spelling to the Dctionary, like QwertyChrisCA, then search for File Contents of QwertyChrisCA.

About spell checker

Hello
At this time, the embedded spell checker is gone.
Of course the System's spelling checker is available BUT for a foreign user it's boring.
As a french guy for instance, my checker is set to check french.
When I enter this forum, I am polite enough to try to write in "quite" english.
With the old embedded checker it was automatically set to english.
Now, I must set my system checker to english and reset it to french when I leave the forum.
This is exactly what I describe as upgrading backwards.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 25 novembre 2005 10:31:09)

Yvan,
you could simply set your system spell checker to "Multilingual" - works just fine for me for writing in multiple languages...
Andreas

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Editing Automatic Spell Check

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http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf
Page 33:
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For a list of supported languages, see www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html.
iPhone uses the active dictionary to suggest corrections or complete the word you’re
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Suggested
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Accept or reject dictionary suggestions:
m To reject the suggested word, finish typing the word as you want it, then tap the “x” to
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How can i remove the spell check from my iMac, i tried system pref but it still autocorrects

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Hello all,
For some reason, spell checking is behaving badly: it won't spell check German correctly anymore, even though it is set on “Multilingual”. English is alright, so I suspect my German dictionary got corrupt.
My questions are:
1- Will installing the 10.5.7 update resolve the issue?
2- Where can I find the system-wide dictionaries used for spell-checking by OS X?
3- Where can I download these dictionaries?
I hope a clean install is not required just to get one dictionary/spellcheck file back…
Thanks very much all!

it won't spell check German correctly anymore, even though it is set on “Multilingual”.
How about when you set it to Deutsch?
2- Where can I find the system-wide dictionaries used for spell-checking by OS X?
3- Where can I download these dictionaries?
You can't find them or download them.
I hope a clean install is not required just to get one dictionary/spellcheck file back…
Maybe. You could also install CocoAspell and add a German dictionary from its selection.
http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/

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?
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http://www.apple.com/feedback

My Spell Check is broken across the entire system

My spell check seems to be broken across my entire system How do I go about reinstalling that component?

Make sure that you have selected the correct dictionary.
You can see which dictionary is selected if you right-click in a text area and open the Languages submenu. 
Also make sure that [[X]"Check Spelling" in the right-click context menu has a tick. 
You can also try to toggle the "Check Spelling" item off and on again. 
 
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Thunderbird 31 "Spell Check As Type" turns off after 1or 2 corrections. Win 7 system.

Installed TB 31.4, and since updated to 31.6. System is Win 7, up to date, Core i7 and tons of RAM etc.. Used UK English executable but later overwrote it with the US version to see if would fix a spell check problem. The option Check Spelling has always worked (as long as a character is not accidentally selected - a trap for new starters) but ongoing spell checks produce the wiggly underlines, but after a small number are right click corrected, eg. 1, 2 or 3 (varies) the rest of the wiggly lines disappear. I noticed they tended to be in other sentences and lines, but found later that makes no difference. Tried US, UK and Australian dictionaries. Tried Safe Mode. Only use Send Later in TB, but have Firefox with some extensions, but mostly disabled, and used TB with Firefox closed. Also have LibreOffice installed, recently updated. Changed mail-compose-max-recycled-windows from 1 to 0. Use Comodo Internet Security suite, but tried offline with all options off. Nothing tried has made any difference.

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Bug? Mailto: in combination with Office 2013 Spell Checking.

Dear community,
For one of our sollutions we use the mailto protocol to send a hyperlink which users can use to automatically open a predefined new-email-window.
This works fine with Office Professional Plus 2010 [EN-US] (32bit) in combinatione with Microsoft Office Language Pack 2010 - Dutch/Nederlands (32bit).
However, Office Professional Plus 2013 [EN-US] (32bit), in combination with Microsoft Office Language Pack 2013 - Dutch/Nederlands (32bit), crashes whenever the spellingcheck is started.
The mailto-command we use to reproduce this problem is (enter command in Internet Explorer, open with Outlook):
mailto:[email protected]?subject=%20Actie%20vereist&body=%5b2103162%2f335159076094968874376260057075247208793%5d
During analyses we concluded:
- Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.2 (Full Scan) did not find any related issues.
- Spellchecker crashes while checking the text within the body.
- Uninstalling Microsoft Office Language Pack 2013 - Dutch/Nederlands solves the problem, but obviosly, we want to keep the Dutch spelling check functionality.
- Standard Englsh (U.S.) spellchecking functions without problems.
- This problem is reproducable on any computer running Office Professional Plus 2013 [EN-US] in combination with the Dutch (Nederlands) spelling check. Tried multiple hardware configurations (Intel based) and multiple OS's (Windows 7 Enterprise
(64bit), Windows 8.1 Enterprise (64bit), Windows 8.1 Pro (64bit). All with the same result.
Is there way to solve this issue, without loosing Outlook 2013 as client and Dutch Spelling Check capabilities?
Kind regards,
Leon Kandelaars.

Hi Steve,
Thanks for your reaction.
Q - Do you mean Outlook crashes when we click the Spelling & Grammar button under Review tab?
A - Yeah, if you try to edit the mail and have 'check spelling as you type' activated, it wil crash as well.
Q - If we copy the email body and paste it to a new email message, will this issue continue?
Does this issue happen with other Office 2013 programs? Please try to use 'spell check' in word and check if the same issue occurs.
A - If you copy the generated body to a new email or Word 2013, the spelling check will in both cases crash the application.
Q - In addition, we can also have a look at the event log to see if we can find anything useful.
A - The crash generates an "Application" "Hang error". I've generated 2 (1 with Outlook, 1 with Word):
Generated mail, spellcheck crashes Outlook:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 10-3-2015 9:52:31
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl
Description:
The program OUTLOOK.EXE version 15.0.4693.1000 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 87c
Start Time: 01d05b0effb4e6f8
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE
Report Id: bf3cde85-c702-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
 <Provider Name="Application Hang" />
 <EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
 <Level>2</Level>
 <Task>101</Task>
 <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
 <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-10T08:52:31.000000000Z" />
 <EventRecordID>14242</EventRecordID>
 <Channel>Application</Channel>
 <Computer>xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl</Computer>
 <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
 <Data>OUTLOOK.EXE</Data>
 <Data>15.0.4693.1000</Data>
 <Data>87c</Data>
 <Data>01d05b0effb4e6f8</Data>
 <Data>0</Data>
 <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE</Data>
 <Data>bf3cde85-c702-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb</Data>
 <Binary>55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
Copied body to Word, spellcheck crashes Word:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 10-3-2015 9:57:15
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl
Description:
The program WINWORD.EXE version 15.0.4693.1000 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 964
Start Time: 01d05b0fe8e683af
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.EXE
Report Id: 6a7dd15f-c703-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
 <Provider Name="Application Hang" />
 <EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
 <Level>2</Level>
 <Task>101</Task>
 <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
 <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-10T08:57:15.000000000Z" />
 <EventRecordID>14247</EventRecordID>
 <Channel>Application</Channel>
 <Computer>xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl</Computer>
 <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
 <Data>WINWORD.EXE</Data>
 <Data>15.0.4693.1000</Data>
 <Data>964</Data>
 <Data>01d05b0fe8e683af</Data>
 <Data>0</Data>
 <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.EXE</Data>
 <Data>6a7dd15f-c703-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb</Data>
 <Binary>55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

We get paid with cheques and organise specialised coloured aluminium. I can not rid my mac book pro or my IMac of the american spell checker.

We get paid with cheques and organise, specialised coloured aluminium. I can not rid my apple devices, mac book pro, desktop IMac or IPhone of the american spell checker.
Everything, Numbers and Pages et al, always default back to US English. To cap it all we sell luminaires (yes this is a word used in our world of lighting design everyday) Mac and Microsoft always default - my docs have more words underlined in red that not. I once found a permanent solution for Microsoft that removed US english - and then the laptop died. Can anyone rid me of this irritation.

GOT IT FIXED! WOW!
I did better than filing a bug report. I went to Apple support, chose chat support. When it wanted $15 or was it $19 I filed an exemption which was a choice on the page, based on the fact that I recently upgraded to Yosemite.
Got the chat fellow and here we go!!!! ;-) First off he sent me this app so he could see my screen. Then he had me do a few things like move the system configuration folder to the desktop and repair permissions. Then he had me reset the SMC and Pram. Nothing helped, all the ghost computers still showed in the finder.
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