Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:28:23 Z

Just allow me tho choose my language: Portuguese (Portugal)

Paulo Morgado (http://PauloMorgado.NET/)

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:32:20 Z

Hi Paulo,

You can choose the dictionary language for spell-checking in Tools -> Options -> Spelling. Unfortunately right now we only have English. We will work to include more languages in the future.

Thanks,
Flora

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:28:15 Z

I can get my onw dictionary but I can't choose to use it because it's not one of the predefined languages.

Languages should be configured or, better yet, determined by the dictionaries present in the dictionaries folder.

Paulo Morgado (http://PauloMorgado.NET/)

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:10:50 Z

It would be great if you just could simply integrate MS Word Dictionaries, is it possible?

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:04:33 Z

Increasing our spell-checking dictionaries is one of our top priorities. I can't make any sort of guarantees, and there are complications involved that make it not as simple as it sounds, but be assured that it is a very bright flashing light on our radar right now.

Flora

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:06:43 Z

It's great to hear that you're working on improving the feature. Dealing with spell check is the most annoying part of my Writer experience. For whatever reason, Writer has always seemed (to me) to have trouble dealing with prefixes and suffixes. It will often recognize the root word alone but not the variant. Also, compared to other locally-run (as opposed to web app) text editors the vocabulary of the software sometimes seems rather limited, particularly for some technical fields. Perhaps I've just become spoiled by Word, but it seems like Writer's spell checker functions more like it's relatively lousy Hotmail cousin than spell checkers in other locally-run text editors.

Don't get me wrong, I love Writer (and am quite pleased with new beta thus far). Just something that annoys me on a regular basis.

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:20:31 Z

But in this page http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D85741BB5E0BE8AA!1533.entry you say:

log authoring enhancements

Spell Checking in more languages: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Serbian-Cyrillic, Serbian-Latin, Spanish, and Swedish

This page is about Livre Writer Beta. But I installed Livre Writer Beta an still only have english options. Who is wrong? This page, my version or what?

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:44:32 Z

Airton Granero said:

But in this page http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D85741BB5E0BE8AA!1533.entry you say:

log authoring enhancements

Spell Checking in more languages: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Serbian-Cyrillic, Serbian-Latin, Spanish, and Swedish

This page is about Live Writer Beta. But I installed Live Writer Beta an still only have English options. Who is wrong? This page, my version or what?

Another bata release, same "advertisement" about the included spell checking capabilities, but the fact remains - it is still not working!. Dictionaries are NOT there, so it is a big fat lie!. There is a difference between future feature list, and currently provided enhancements.

Microsoft management needs to pay more attention to its reputation. Are they so cynical, and believe that people KNOW not to rust what is on MS product description pages?

I am disappointed.

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:52:25 Z

What is wrong with you? Just few days ago new version was released and there are many languages supported. What language are you interested in?

Just go to spellcheck options. And it seems to be installed only english and your operating system language, because there are huge lang. support, but i hyve only my mine and english.

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:56:44 Z

English dictionaries are available in all builds. Other dictionaries are only available in the build for that language. For example, to get the Greek dictionary you'd have to install the Greek build.

Here is the list of dictionaries that are available in their respective language builds:

Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesia, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian-Cyrillic, Serbian-Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukranian

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:27:40 Z

Still not an option for someone like me that chooses to install EN-US versions of software and has blogs in different languages.

The right implementation would be to have language packs and to the language to be configured on a per blog account basis.

Paulo Morgado (http://PauloMorgado.NET/)

Suggestion: Don't lock down the available languages for spell checking

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:28:18 Z

Yes, we hope to have language packs and hopefully per-blog language settings in the future--no promises as to when that will happen though, as usual. In the meantime, if you want, you can copy the files out of C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Writer\Dictionaries from your native language, uninstall Writer, install en-us Writer, and put the Dictionaries files back in that directory. A little tedious but it should work.

Sorry for the inconvenience, obviously this is all a work in progress.