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Jun 10, 2020

New spell checking engine not working in multiple languages

Hi, Since the new spell checking engine was rolled out, both Google Chrome and Edge can only spell check in Windows 's system language. The blog instructions are straightforward, and my system ...

Brass Contributor

Jun 10, 2020

System Settings: languages are installed correctly according to blog post:

According to blog post, if language is not available, it should fall back to hunspell, the old engine, but it is not working.

Tiago Freire
Brass Contributor
Jun 15, 2020
Has anyone had a similar issue?
Is there a workaround?
- Filipe_Martins
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 26, 2021
  Tiago Freire Precisely the same here using English and Spanish as a second language. Have tried everything and losing patience for Edge. I have just migrated the whole company to Office 365 and this just made working fully 100% online impossible... (and don´t get me started on saving things directly to SharePoint!)
  
  ¡Interesante, aquí detecta el idioma y funciona bien! Well that´s interesting, I have the Microsoft Editor (last ditch to make it work) and it detects both languages fine.
  
  Looks like it´s only a problem using outlook web app in that case!
- sandro
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 09, 2021
  Hi Tiago Freire ,
  
  Same problem here, under the very same situation (multiple languages on Edge). No workaround so far. Sorry!
  
  By the way, every time I open Chromium-based Edge (version 87.0.664.66, Official Build) it is recorded on Event Viewer a warning about Spell-Checking EventID 20 "Attempt to initialise Excluded Words wordlist in en-GB spell checker failed. This could be due to a bug with the spell checker. The spell checker will remain available.". I guess it does not remain fully available at all.

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