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Sharepoint Online uses MS Editor for spell checking, gets errors with Swedish text
Hello, For a few weeks now, SharePoint Online has been using Microsoft Editor for spell checking. The SharePoint pages that were created with the basic language English then show errors in everythin...
- Maybe you already know but just in case you would like to disable de spell checking, I just discover there is an option in the SharePoint page information panel.
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If I understand you correct, if this is the case then all users that could edit that page would get the problem!? BUT in my case this only happens to 1 of 5 users with the right to edit.
I'm very curious to find out the pattern of those who are and aren't affected. Is it those who have the Microsoft Editor extension installed? Does it depend on whether the language is the first in the browser language list, or within the first 3? For us, those don't make a difference, but by poking around a bit in the JavaScript it looks like they get checked.
We have tested different browsers
We have tested different computer
We have tested MS Editor extension installed, On and Off
We have tested without MS editor exension
All this the but the users still gets the problem, and Im not able to reproduce it on my computer with my account.
The page that we have created is in english (cannont be changed be design). Language in our browser is 1. Swedish 2 English , 3 English
I have spent far too much time on this, with about 20 breakpoints in the JavaScript seeing what the code looks for and then testing for it. Unfortunately I sometimes get different results by re-running the same page.
There is definitely a difference with the extension on or off. With the extension on, it is willing to recognize more than one language and to respect the language-specific configuration of the extension, but those languages must be among the top 3 browser languages.
There is a fair bit of processing dedicated to the language of Topic type Communication pages the multilingual feature enabled. Within it, but sometimes elsewhere, it looks for a cookie called "siteLangPref" to override the language selection. As I mentioned elsewhere, this is the cookie that is set when you select the dropdown language list on multilingual sites (note: never use that selector, it has too many side effects). When it is set, it often returns the "wrong" language code, one that does not correspond to the actual language.
With a little tinkering you can change which one language it will ignore if it is spelled correctly, but it will give squiggles for the other languages. Without the extension, I have not found a way to make it accept more than one language.
I wonder whether it is like the Teams spell checker, where you have to have installed the dictionaries in the local workstation version of Office.
- Maybe you already know but just in case you would like to disable de spell checking, I just discover there is an option in the SharePoint page information panel.