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Use OS native Language Input Panel to Change Input Language/Spelling on Windows
Hi, I use Windows 10 swapping between three input languages using the OS native Language Control panel to change them using Win+Space. Edge spell-checking doesn't obey these means of choosing the...
Edge insider Canary Version 78.0.268.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
it can check for spelling simultaneously for multiple languages, regardless of Window language settings.
HotCakeX Thanks. I didn't know about this.
That's part of a solution potentially, but it is also not quite so helpful if two languages are reasonably close and you are trying to write in a particular one. Having both of them selected as spell-check languages means that words in either are not flagged. So a sentence containing e.g. a Polish word such as "chrząszcz" is unflagged in a piece of English text such as this one.
You can see this would be problematic if the difference between languages in many words boils down to diacritical marks or one letter: e.g. the English "training", Polish "trening" and Czech "trenink" (which are all being allowed right now since I have EN, PL, and CZ spell checking)
So then I still need to switch the input language using Win+Space (to change the input keyboard), right click in the text field to pick just one language. Then to actually switch back to the multi-language spell checking, I have to go back to Edge's language settings.
- For testing purpose, i removed all other languages and just kept EN and Polish.
before doing that, when i wrote "trening", Edge insider would drew a red line under it meaning it's incorrect and spelled wrong. but after adding Polish both to list of the languages and Spell checking language, the red line didn't appear again when i wrote trening. because it identified it as a polish word.
there is also an option in the same language settings called
Languages / Add or delete words
use it to add super similar words to the list.HotCakeX I agree that's how it works.
But I am saying it is a problem if you are writing in one language which has words which are spelled similarly to another one which you also have set up in your preferred list. This means that Edge doesn't tell you that you have spelled the word e.g. in Polish by mistake (because e.g. it's your native language and you naturally spell like that) when you were writing in English.