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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?

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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.

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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.

 

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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?"

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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.

 

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See from the top menu:  "View > Studio > Glyph-Browser"

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... 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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Posted
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!

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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.

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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?

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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 ...

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dict2.jpg.f887c11d2c8e10ce08497f5b081fde2c.jpg

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!

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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 ...

dict1.jpg.4d275052dd244fb64808b51887bbb855.jpg

dict2.jpg.f887c11d2c8e10ce08497f5b081fde2c.jpg

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!

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