jwardzala Posted November 16, 2021 Posted November 16, 2021 I have a missing dictionary for en-PH which can't be found in github. I believe I know what the issues is since my site is in English. There is one character which is a " ' " that I am using for a symbol for feet: 9' I have looked everywhere online trying to find the dictionary for the Philippines and I can't find it. I believe I will need it to add that character. Is there a setting to accept that character? Or is there a way to add that character? Quote
PaulEC Posted November 16, 2021 Posted November 16, 2021 I'm pretty sure that being able to access any particular character is more to do with the font you are using, rather than having any particular dictionary installed. " ' " is a single quote character which is also used for feet: 9'. It's available in most fonts and, on an English keyboard, is on the same key as the " @" symbol, (typed without any modifier key). You should also be able to access it from the Glyph Browser tab. Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 11 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS)
jwardzala Posted November 16, 2021 Author Posted November 16, 2021 4 minutes ago, PaulEC said: I'm pretty sure that being able to access any particular character is more to do with the font you are using, rather than having any particular dictionary installed. " ' " is a single quote character which is also used for feet: 9'. It's available in most fonts and, on an English keyboard, is on the same key as the " @" symbol, (typed without any modifier key). I have my worker in the Philippines creating some of the text. Some not all is coming up "missing Dictionary en-PH". I can't find that dictionary anywhere. Everything is in English. There is no Tagalog. The only thing that seems to have an issue is the text box with the ' she created along with text. The other text boxes she added are fine. Quote
PaulEC Posted November 16, 2021 Posted November 16, 2021 I can't help with finding the dictionary, I'm afraid, I was just answering your question, "Or is there a way to add that character?" Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 11 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS)
jwardzala Posted November 16, 2021 Author Posted November 16, 2021 1 minute ago, PaulEC said: I can't help with finding the dictionary, I'm afraid, I was just answering your question, "Or is there a way to add that character?" I didn't think you would. I was just explaining my issue hoping for a finger to point me in the right direction. Quote
v_kyr Posted November 16, 2021 Posted November 16, 2021 See from the top menu: "View > Studio > Glyph-Browser" ... you can select one from the installed fonts on your system there and insert a character from that panel (via double-click etc.) into artistic text or form text portions. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Alfred Posted November 16, 2021 Posted November 16, 2021 2 hours ago, PaulEC said: " ' " is a single quote character which is also used for feet: 9'. A straight single quote isn’t really the correct character for feet. You should use a single prime (also used for minutes when an angle is expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds) if your chosen font includes it. You can find single and double primes here: https://symbols.typeit.org Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
walt.farrell Posted November 16, 2021 Posted November 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Alfred said: You can find single and double primes here Or possibly by using the Glyph Browser in the Affinity applications, and typing prime into the search box. Alfred 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
walt.farrell Posted November 16, 2021 Posted November 16, 2021 3 hours ago, jwardzala said: I have a missing dictionary for en-PH which can't be found in github. You should be able to correct the Language for the text by selecting it and using the Character studio panel to specify a different version of English. Or if the text uses Text Styles, correct the definition in the Text Styles. Alternatively, you could duplicate your normal English dictionaries and rename the directory/files. But as others have indicated, that has nothing to do with accessing the prime character. Jenna Appleseed and Alfred 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
v_kyr Posted November 16, 2021 Posted November 16, 2021 5 hours ago, jwardzala said: I have a missing dictionary for en-PH which can't be found in github. As I already wrote in your other thread, that en-PH dictionary is just a link to the en-US dictionary and nothing more here. Thus there is no explicitely en-PH dictionary, on Unix/Linux systems that's always just a name alias/link to the main US one! In other words: en-PH.dic -- points on --> en-US.dic so it's the same one. If you do the same for Affinity, that locale dictionary will be found by that en-PH dictionary name! The character is font related and not dictionary related at all here! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Lisbon Posted November 16, 2021 Posted November 16, 2021 Dont know if this helps but in windows if there is a character that doesn't appear on my keyboard I just type the code. For example " ' " is Alt 39. The code number has to be inserted with the numpad and the list of the codes can be found here. Quote
jwardzala Posted November 17, 2021 Author Posted November 17, 2021 11 hours ago, v_kyr said: As I already wrote in your other thread, that en-PH dictionary is just a link to the en-US dictionary and nothing more here. Thus there is no explicitely en-PH dictionary, on Unix/Linux systems that's always just a name alias/link to the main US one! In other words: en-PH.dic -- points on --> en-US.dic so it's the same one. If you do the same for Affinity, that locale dictionary will be found by that en-PH dictionary name! The character is font related and not dictionary related at all here! Sorry I didn't respond in the other thread. You are brilliant. My issue is that I have Windows 10 and I can't for the life of me find the en-US.dic and have spent hours looking. I did find the custom dictionary in Windows 10 and copied and renamed it so I had the two custom dictionaries. I tried adding that in Affinity but that didn't work. I checked and there isn't much in the custom dictionary. So, in short, Where do I find the en-US.dic in Windows 10? Quote
v_kyr Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 6 hours ago, jwardzala said: My issue is that I have Windows 10 and I can't for the life of me find the en-US.dic and have spent hours looking. I did find the custom dictionary in Windows 10 and copied and renamed it so I had the two custom dictionaries. You have to look inside the Affinity installment paths under it's resources directory where the dictionaries it uses are! I'm on a Mac not Windows, but it should be similar structured on Win for Affinity's own resources. If I look in an old outdated Pub Beta I've found around here, the Affinity dicts are here ... So you would have to add there an "en-PH" directory/folder and place inside a copy of the en-US dictionary as a file named "hyph_en_PH.dic", so in the same fashion as for the other locale language dicts shown there! Alfred 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
jwardzala Posted November 17, 2021 Author Posted November 17, 2021 2 hours ago, v_kyr said: You have to look inside the Affinity installment paths under it's resources directory where the dictionaries it uses are! I'm on a Mac not Windows, but it should be similar structured on Win for Affinity's own resources. If I look in an old outdated Pub Beta I've found around here, the Affinity dicts are here ... So you would have to add there an "en-PH" directory/folder and place inside a copy of the en-US dictionary as a file named "hyph_en_PH.dic", so in the same fashion as for the other locale language dicts shown there! THANK YOU!! It WORKED! Thank you for taking the time to research and find the answer. I really appreciate it! Quote
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