Australian Dictionary

[Carljh]

Publisher will not spell check my text and get a message to the effect that it can't check Australian English.  My Windows system language is Australian, and I have the spelling checker in Publisher set to UK English.  Whenever any program I use has a spelling checker and doesn't have the option of Australian English, I always set it for UK English and have never had a problem in the past including Serif PagePlus which I used for many years.  As far as spelling is concerned, I can't think of any words that we use the US spelling so there should be no problem using the UK dictionary.  

[Dan C]

Hi @Carljh,

Sorry to hear you're having trouble!

You will be seeing this warning as your text frames are likely set to the en_AU language, although you do not have an active AU dictionary installed currently.

There are 2 options here, you can either change your text frames within your document to a language that you do already have a dictionary installed for (such as English UK/US), or we can install an en_AU dictionary, so that this error message no longer appears.

Which would you prefer to do please?

[Carljh]

Thanks for the reply, Dan.  I would really appreciate it if an Australian dictionary can be installed.

Thank you for your help.

[Dan C]

No problem at all!

I've recently created a screen recording that covered this for Canadian, but all the steps remain the same besides downloading the en_AU files, and naming the folder 'en_AU' rather than en_CA as shown in the below recording -

Please also find our FAQ regarding this below, with the link to the GitHub page to download the dictionary files -

I hope this helps

[Carljh]

Thanks again, Dan.  Have downloaded the Australian dictionary and put it in a folder as per your instructions.  The only problem is that it is a RAW file and can’t find a program to open it, so nothing shows up in the folder when I move the file to it.

[Old Bruce]

37 minutes ago, Carljh said:

The only problem is that it is a RAW file and can’t find a program to open it, so nothing shows up in the folder when I move the file to it.

RAW or RAR ?

I thing the latter is a compression format.

[walt.farrell]

On 9/30/2021 at 6:21 PM, Carljh said:

The only problem is that it is a RAW file and can’t find a program to open it, so nothing shows up in the folder when I move the file to it.

If you follow the FAQ instructions, and the video, it is a text file with an extension (file type) like .aff or .dic. It is neither a RAW nor (as @Old Bruce) surmised, a RAR file.

What do you mean "nothing shows up in the folder"? You should see the file name there that you moved in. You don't usually Open these files, except possibly in a text editor, so I would not expect to see any program icon associated with them.

[Carljh]

All fixed, once I found out that I could slow the video down.  Why does it only set the language to a text box and not as default?

Thanks for the help.

[Dan C]

Glad to hear it!

On 10/3/2021 at 6:58 AM, Carljh said:

Why does it only set the language to a text box and not as default?

Please select the text frame tool and draw a new frame - then change the language in the Character Studio.

With the text frame still selected, navigate to Edit > Defaults > Save and this will take a 'snapshot' of your current settings and apply this to all new text frame objects drawn.

I hope this clears things up

[Carljh]

Thanks for that.

[David Ampleford]

I have the same problem as Carljh, only my error message says it's en-NZ (New Zealand English) that's unsupported. There's no NZ dictionary available on the LibreOffice website. Any suggestions?

[walt.farrell]

5 hours ago, David Ampleford said:

I have the same problem as Carljh, only my error message says it's en-NZ (New Zealand English) that's unsupported. There's no NZ dictionary available on the LibreOffice website. Any suggestions?

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

You have two choices that I know of:

1. Set the language for the text to a different value (English UK, or US, or AU, or another for which you can find a dictionary. You do this in the Character panel or by using Text Styles.
   or
2. Make a copy of one of the other English dictionaries and rename the files and directory to make them work for en-NZ.

[Carljh]

David,

Try this link: hunspell/en_NZ.dic at master · elastic/hunspell · GitHub

[David Ampleford]

Ok, I switched to UK English. The spelling is virtually identical anyway. Thanks for your suggestions walt.farrell and Carljh.

[Timespider]

Hi I have spent quite a while getting a (close to) New Zealand dictionary set up. I followed the video from Dan C Here and followed advice from walt.farrell Here but I'm having an issue where Affinity Designer doesn't recognise the dictionary at start-up & I have to select English UK from language as it's closer to NZ, but Photo & Publisher do recognise it at start-up, why is this?.
I use Designer the most.
Walt suggested to to grab the Australian version and rename it as that's close to NZ too which I have done.

It would be nice to have these set up and you just select your desired language with a checkbox in the app.

Attached is an image of the issue.

 

Edited March 20, 2022 by Timespider
Image was wrong

[Pšenda]

All applications is same type? (same Store).

P.S. Right image isn't APhoto. 

[walt.farrell]

Please show us the Tools section of the Preferences for both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, @Timespider.

[Timespider]

Hi   walt.farrell & Pšenda (fixed the above image) I have taken a screen shot of both, but as soon as you asked that question  walt.farrell I checked & noticed the difference in locations and fixed it.
For anyone else having an issue, I had selected the en_NZ directory instead the "Dictionaries" directory, it's not the actual dictionary you select, but one level up that holds them, my path is "C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries" and my en_NZ (and a few others) are in here.

What caught me was I had done this in Designer which forced it to look in "C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries/en_NZ" as that's the folder I wrongly selected,  but both Photo & Publisher which I never touched automatically looked at the correct path which is "C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries" an image below shows my error. Hope this helps someone.

Thanks walt.farrell

 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome, @Timespider. That was the possibility I was thinking about.