Spell check - proper nouns

[UweN]

Hello,
I would like to add so-called "protected words" as a term in the user dictionary. For example, the name for Easter Island: "Rapa Nui". So far "Rapa Nui" is considered as two independent words and therefore the spell check is applied separately to "Rapa" and "Nui". Is there a way to prevent this separate consideration of the individual words of proper nouns or other word combinations that belong together, or to mark these combinations so that they are considered "one word" for spelling purposes?   

regards, Uwe

[stokerg]

Hi @UweN,

You would need to add the two separate words to the spell checker.  The other method would be to edit the dictionary file directly and add the place names directly to it.  For the location of these files, please see here.

[MikeTO]

2 hours ago, stokerg said:

You would need to add the two separate words to the spell checker.  The other method would be to edit the dictionary file directly and add the place names directly to it.  For the location of these files, please see here.

I think they were asking to add the two words together, so that each of them on their own would still be flagged as a spelling error but that together the two words would be approved.

I don't think there's a way to do this. You definitely can't do it via the user interface since only single words are flagged. Adding two words manually to the dictionary file on macOS with a space between them or quotation marks around them won't work either. AppleSpell is based on HunSpell and I didn't see anything in the docs on this when I did a quick scan, but HunSpell is a beast with tons of options and I didn't spend that much time looking at it so perhaps somebody with more experience with it could chime in.