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I'm getting a message when I try to use the spell checker. It reads: "Unsupported languages. Document contains languages (en-CA) for which no dictionary is installed." My Dictionary Folder is empty (ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries). Is there an (en-US) dictionary I could download? (Windows 10).

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Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @JBusby.

You already have an en-US dictionary installed by default in each Affinity application, but the default dictionaries are in a different location. The problem is that you need an en-CA dictionary.

When you follow the directions in the FAQ you'll end up here for the English dictionaries. And they do have the .aff and .dic files for en_CA. I do not see the hyphenation file there, though. So you'll probably need to download the en_US (or en_GB) hyphenation file and rename it to en_CA when you install it.

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Thanks for the quick reply. I followed the link you provided and ended up there for the English dictionaries. I found two links for the .aff and .dic files, but I can't make any sense of them. Do I copy / paste something? Is there a download file that I'm not seeing? If you could push me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!

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en_CA.aff

en_CA.dic

GitHub is not optimal for less experienced users.
I suggested that Serif create at least a specific thread with appropriate dictionaries so that less experienced users would not have to search for them somewhere on the Internet.
Unfortunately, Serif did not even respond.

 

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28 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

GitHub is not optimal for less experienced users.

True, but Serif updated the FAQ with specific GitHub instructions to make it clear how to use the site. If there are issues with those instructions I'm sure Leigh would be willing to make further clarifications.

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1 hour ago, JBusby said:

Thanks for the quick reply. I followed the link you provided and ended up there for the English dictionaries. I found two links for the .aff and .dic files, but I can't make any sense of them. Do I copy / paste something? Is there a download file that I'm not seeing? If you could push me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!

The FAQ article contains full instructions on what to do with the files, including hyis to download them in the proper format and what to do with them once downloaded.

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13 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

True, but Serif updated the FAQ with specific GitHub instructions to make it clear how to use the site.

Why be considerate and user friendly to less experienced users, when we can all train them in searching and downloading files from GitHub, a skill that most of them will never need again. Thanks for the helpfulness.

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Reply to All: I followed Leigh's instructions--RAW files--right-click--download etc. The files were saved in the default folder. The file types were both .txt,  but no file was appended with a .txt extension in the default folder. I restarted the application, opened Text / Spelling / Check Spelling, but I still got the same message ("Unsupported languages. Document contains languages (en-CA) for which no dictionary is installed"). So I deleted the files and installed Leigh's files. One file type was saved as an AFF file. The .dic file was saved as a txt file and I had to add the .dic extension in the default file (ProgramData / Affinity / Common / 1.0 / Dictionaries). And again, the same "Unsupported languages" message appeared after I restarted the application and tried to use the spell-checker. Admittedly, I'm a user with less experience at such things, but, after several attempts, if I'm still doing something wrong here,  I don't know what it is. Thanks for your help.

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Why don't you download the files I saved for you in the previous post?

 

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In my previous reply to all, I indicated that I downloaded your files and installed them as my second option. I only received your post with the files after finding your instructions to download the files manually, The files you sent went straight into the default folder, but I had to add the .dic extension to the en_CA file. That file was automatically saved as a txt file type when I clicked the link. The en_CA.aff file was automatically saved as an AFF file type when I clicked the link. Sorry if my post was misleading in some way, it was not intended. In summary, both attempts to install  the files have not had any success. 

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23 minutes ago, JBusby said:

The files you sent went straight into the default folder, but I had to add the .dic extension to the en_CA file. That file was automatically saved as a txt file type when I clicked the link.

If the file was saved as ‘en-CA.txt’ you can’t expect it to work if you simply added the ‘.dic’ extension. It needs to be named en-CA.dic, not en-CA.dic.txt.

Open an Explorer window and untick the option to ‘Hide extensions for known file types’ so that you can see and remove the ‘.txt’ part of the file name.

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18 minutes ago, JBusby said:

In my previous reply to all, I indicated that I downloaded your files and installed them as my second option. I only received your post with the files after finding your instructions to download the files manually, The files you sent went straight into the default folder, but I had to add the .dic extension to the en_CA file. That file was automatically saved as a txt file type when I clicked the link. The en_CA.aff file was automatically saved as an AFF file type when I clicked the link. Sorry if my post was misleading in some way, it was not intended. In summary, both attempts to install  the files have not had any success. 

After clicking on the links in my post, the listed files will be saved as en_CA.aff and en_CA.dic. Although these are text files, there is no reason to insert the extension txt. If it is still included there (maybe some settings of your OS), then simply name / rename the files correctly using File Explorer (or using any file manager).

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27 minutes ago, JBusby said:

In my previous reply to all, I indicated that I downloaded your files and installed them as my second option.

You mean this?

59 minutes ago, JBusby said:

So I deleted the files and installed Leigh's files.

Because I'm not Leigh, I really didn't understand 🙂

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To Psenda (Eternal Beginner): Sorry about that. I hope I have the right person now, and I thank you for your patience. The names of the files in the default folder are en_CA.aff and en_CA.dic. I deleted the files in the default folder and started again. In my latest attempt, after I downloaded your files again, I unticked the option to ‘Hide extensions for known file types’, but I found no hidden .txt extension. Once again, after re-starting the application I am still receiving the "Unsupported languages" message. I'm thinking I'll have to give it a rest after this post. Thanks for trying!

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9 minutes ago, JBusby said:

Once again, after re-starting the application I am still receiving the "Unsupported languages" message.

You've been referring to downloading the files to the default directory. I'm not sure which directory you mean. The directory structure is critical, as described in the FAQ. 

You must have 

  • Publisher's dictionary directory and
  • Under that, a directory named en_CA (or possibly en-CA) and
  • Within that, the .aff file and the 2 .dic files.

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21 minutes ago, JBusby said:

not Affinity / Common / etc

Actually, that one (as shown in the Preferences, by default) is the right one for user-installed dictionaries, and the one I meant. Sorry for any confusion.

If you install in the one within Publisher you may lose it when updating Publisher, or if you uninstall and reinstall. 

But it's good you got it working.

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Dears,

I am not sure what I do ing wrong, but according to the documentation:

 

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Installing alternative spelling dictionaries

Spelling dictionaries are installed for the languages supported by Affinity apps, except for Chinese, Japanese and Russian. To install for these languages do the following:

  1. Visit the OpenOffice™ website and download the appropriate language dictionary or try an internet search for "spelling dictionaries".
  2. Create a language code folder (e.g., ru_RU) in C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries and copy the downloaded dictionary files into this folder.
  3. Restart app.

 

There is a way to install additional dictionaries, but this is not working with OpenOffice files e.g. dict_ru-ru.oxt

Do you have any hints about this?

Thanks in advance and regards,

Seweryn.

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26 minutes ago, Seweryn said:

dict_ru-ru.oxt

Must be *.aff and *.dict files.

 

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21 minutes ago, Seweryn said:

There is a way to install additional dictionaries, but this is not working with OpenOffice files e.g. dict_ru-ru.oxt

It can work using those files, but you need some additional details and/or experimentation. (Specifically, a .oxt file is a kind of .zip file, and you can open it with 7zip or you can rename it to .zip and open it with other zip-file handlers)

It's better to work with the instructions in the FAQ, but be sure to follow them carefully as the GitHub site makes the downloads somewhat tricky:

 

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@walt.farrell
Thanks a lot for the hint.
I had unpacked the files from dict_ru-ru.oxt to the dict_ru-ru directory. Then created subfolder in side:

C:\Program Files\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries\ru_RU

Then copied all necessary files from dict_ru-ru:

  • ru_RU.dic
  • ru_RU.aff
  • hyph_ru.dic

Restarted Publisher. And I have it under Character > Language > Spelling.

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