Factory Defaults: Dictionary "Unknown (en-DE)"

[Aleksandar Kovač]

Yes, @garrettm30, the starting point is a bit of a conundrum. We do have to start from somewhere, and it is likely going to be an incorrect starting point. I vote for 'Prefer None' as well as application default (and no guessing shenenigans!) and of course ability to change that to a preferred language.

To add to your proposals, improved documentation would help a lot already. Or, that Assistant notification thingy (the name escapes me) could be used to direct user attention to this. Or, my preference would be, just not engage spell checker until User defines language for some text. Logic here being 'I'd rather see no errors than irrelevant/wrong errors', and 'how dare you detect errors against None language based on misconstrued language variant, you cheeky software!' <- edit: see the following posts.

[garrettm30]

1 minute ago, Aleksandar Kovač said:

Logic here being 'I'd rather see no errors than irrelevant/wrong errors', and 'how dare you detect errors against None language based on misconstrued language variant, you cheeky software!'

I'm not aware that spell check does report errors for text where [none] is selected; that is indeed its purpose. Have you found such examples, or perhaps have I misunderstood?

[Aleksandar Kovač]

@garrettm30 You are right. I was not patient enough. Preflight dictionary error disappears after a moment or two if I switch text language to "None". I will correct my post and go rest.