Affinity Publisher spelling checking not working

[rogerpence]

I am testing-driving Affinity Publisher. The spell checking isn't underling misspelled words. (see attached png)

I have confirmed the Auto-Correct settings language is sent English (United States) and that the Spelling value in the Character panel is also set to that language. When right-clicking on a misspelled word, correct substitutes are displayed.

I'm a convert from Illustrator to AD and hope very much to ditch InDesign for AP. This spelling issue aside, your software is great!

Also, you aren't charging enough for your software. Anyone who would spend $50 would spend $99. Raise your prices. I want you to make money and stick around!

Thank you

Roger Pence

rp@rogerpence.com

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

First, the Auto-Correct language is not a setting, and has no effect on spellchecking. The Auto-Correct function has multiple lists of corrections it can make, and it picks the list to use based on the language specified for a particular word. So, if you had a sentence with a word mix of Spanish and English, Auto-Correct would auto-correct the Spanish words using the Spanish list, and the English words using the English list. But it knows the correct language based on either the setting in the Character panel or in the Language setting of the Text Style(s) that apply to a word.

Next, do you have Text > Spelling > Check Spelling While Typing enabled?

Finally, we generally recommend not including your email address in forum posts; it's easy for spammers to harvest them.

[Geaorid]

When go into the Text Menu and select  Spelling option and click on "Check Spelling", I get the following:  "Unsupported Language"  "Document contains languages (en-IE) for which no dictionary is installed". Why is this happening? 

[Pšenda]

10 hours ago, Geaorid said:

Why is this happening? 

 

10 hours ago, Geaorid said:

(en-IE) for which no dictionary is installed

This dictionary is not part of the basic dictionaries and needs to be installed, see link for other dictionaries.

 

 

Edited August 22, 2022 by Pšenda

[walt.farrell]

14 hours ago, Geaorid said:

Why is this happening? 

Because your document contains text which is set in that language, or your system language and keyboard preferences are setup to indicate that language choice. Honestly, I have never understood how/why that happens, but I don't think we've ever convinced Serif there's a bug.

You can

1. See if there's an English (Ireland) set of dictionaries that you can install, or
2. Make a copy of the English (UK) dictionaries and install them as English (Ireland), or
3. Set the Language, Spelling, settings for your text to a different variant of English that has a dictionary installed already.  Or
4. Change your systems language and/or keyboard settings, but that will only help for future documents.

For approach 3, you can assign a Text Style to the text which has a better language specified in its Language settings.

[carl123]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Honestly, I have never understood how/why that happens

Happens to me if I cut and paste from a Word document where the language is set (for certain words) to a spelling language I don't have installed in Affinity

Logically, it may also occur when "importing" documents/pages

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, carl123 said:

Happens to me if I cut and paste from a Word document where the language is set (for certain words) to a spelling language I don't have installed in Affinity

Logically, it may also occur when "importing" documents/pages

Thanks, but this is more (I think) about the way that the Affinity applications seem to "invent" language specifications or combinations. In this case, "English as spoken in Ireland", which I don't think is a recognized/standard variant of the English language.

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Thanks, but this is more (I think) about the way that the Affinity applications seem to "invent" language specifications or combinations. In this case, "English as spoken in Ireland", which I don't think is a recognized/standard variant of the English language.

These are from the Mac OS 11.6.8. Missing the Canadian variant I have already set.

[carl123]

This is from Word for Windows

Setting text to any one of them that does not have that specific dictionary installed will generate the warning message @Geaorid reported

(It appears we colonised a lot of the planet at some point in the past)