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KuroPixel
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May 22, 2020
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English spellcheck occurring on Japanese characters typed in forms or websites

I wanted to report an issue with Edge spellcheck adding red underlines to every single thing I type in Japanese on forms on websites. My default system language is English (US), but I use a Japanese ...
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    BruceLong
    May 29, 2020

    KuroPixel Deleted I agree that the spellchecker adding red squiggles to all Japanese text is a pretty distracting experience, but the good news is that we recently fixed this bug. I just confirmed the fix is in the stable channel (83.0.478.37). If you go to edge://version/ do you see your browser version as 83 or higher?

     

    If not, entering edge://settings/help in the address bar should take you to the About Microsoft Edge page, and result in your browser being updated. After restarting the browser you should no longer see the excessive red squiggles. Spellchecking for English should still work fine. There is currently no spellchecking support for most East Asian languages. If you still see any problems after the upgrade, please let us know. And thanks again for reporting the issue.

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May 29, 2020

KuroPixel Thanks for bringing this to our attention, and welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider community! Yes, that certainly isn't the experience that we're aiming for with the new spellcheck feature. A couple of questions for you:

 

  1. Can you please confirm the channel and build number of MS Edge that you're using? (You can find it here edge://settings/help)
  2. Do you have your OS and browser settings configured for Japanese? (You can check the later here edge://settings/languages)
  3. If you haven't yet, can you please submit that screenshot, detailed feedback, and diagnostic data through the browser? (Shift+Alt+I)

 

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

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