GraphicsForWhatevs Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 Hi! I've run into a unique problem with the language feature on MacOS. I have set both my autocorrect and general preferences to English (Non Uk, e.c.t.). I have a template I am editing, and no matter how many times I reset the language preference to English, when Affinity Publisher reopens, the * before the language doesn't go away, and my English content is being autocorrected to a non-english language. (I thought it was Spanish, but it's almost a mix of everything but English). So I resent English, it asks to restart, I let it restart, and it doesn't change anything. I've attached photos of the document, and settings. (It's a mock-political magazine, there is no political content on it. The words are just nonsense to fill.) Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, and any support would be much appreciated! I've looked everywhere on the forums, (for about two hours), and YouTube to no avail. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 First check what language your text is set to... Highlight some text Go to the Character panel Scroll down to the Language section Check what setting Spelling is set to there GraphicsForWhatevs 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraphicsForWhatevs Posted December 9, 2022 Author Share Posted December 9, 2022 6 minutes ago, carl123 said: First check what language your text is set to... Highlight some text Go to the Character panel Scroll down to the Language section Check what setting Spelling is set to there Aha! That did it. Oddly enough, I knew this, and checked it first, and I somehow must have switched it from English to Spanish. (What I thought, but didn't want to assume.) 🥲. So I must have dumped myself out somehow, and just never thought to check it. Lesson learned! Thank you for the quick response and your very helpful info! I'm sorry if I wasted your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 This trips up a number of users, @GraphicsForWhatevs. The key point is that the language you pick in AutoCorrect is not a setting, that determines which corrections are used. It simply gives you access to see or modify the set of corrections that will be used if you are using a particular language. But if you're using a different language, a different set of corrections will be used. Separately, you have to say what language you're using for the text itself Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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