Publisher: Spelling language does not take effect immediately

[Dybkjær]

I use iPad Pro 2020 12.9", iPadOS 16.5.1 ("is up to date"). 

In the enclosed spelltest.afpub I have duplicated a Frame text box, and language is UK English:

I change that to German, and the wiggly lines disappear in the selected box:

I apply the style change:

But the rightmost box still has wiggly lines:

Doing the above with other properties, such as bold, takes effect immediately on update style, both boxes become bold:

Only if somehow do extra operations on the boxes, e.g. exit the document:

and then re-enter: Now the text has no wiggly lines in any of the boxes:

Severity: It has an easy work-around. On the other hand, I wasted quite some time believing "language" was not part of the style, and manually updating and applying language to the individual boxes.

Extra note: In the final picture, "That is German" does not have wiggly lines. You could have fooled me into thinking "That is German" is English and not German, and hence should have wiggly lines.

Indeed, if I change the first line into Danish, it has wiggly lines when choosing German spelling:

I see the same effect in Pages, though, so this extra oddity seems not to be Publisher, but either Apple spelling or some setting on my computer.

spelltest.afpub

[Dan C]

Hi @Dybkjær,

Thanks for your report!

I can confirm that I have been able to replicate this issue here (on both desktop and iPad) and therefore I'm getting this logged with our developers now.

5 hours ago, Dybkjær said:

Extra note: In the final picture, "That is German" does not have wiggly lines. You could have fooled me into thinking "That is German" is English and not German, and hence should have wiggly lines.

This appears to be part of the Apple dictionary for the German language, as on Windows once the language has been changed, the following is shown, which is what I'd expect:

This would explain why you also see the same behaviour in Pages with this specific wording.

I hope this helps

[Alfred]

14 minutes ago, Dan C said:

This appears to be part of the Apple dictionary for the German language, as on Windows once the language has been changed, the following is shown, which is what I'd expect:

Wouldn’t you expect “German” to have a wiggly underline, too?

 

[Dan C]

No, as it is listed in the Hunspell dictionary provided with Publisher Windows

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Changing Language of text and updating Text Style does not remove red squiggly spellcheck lines under text in a separate frame until reopening file" (REF: AF-50) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.4.0.2213".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

[JEBL]

Hello @Serif Info Bot,

I can confirm that this still happens when changing from the pre-set spelling autocorrect of English UK to French.  No change even after closing the app and reopening with the file.  It doesn't save the change.  When you reopen the app, English UK is till there.  Also, the Settings GUI is buggy.  You scroll down the Main body text and then you can't select the paragraph titles on the left column (index side).  Next I'll test by closing my Mac to see if the language will take (i.e., hold).

[EmT]

Hi @JEBL

I cannot reproduce this myself. Are you using the latest release build? 
Could you also provide a screen recording of your issue please.

[walt.farrell]

10 hours ago, JEBL said:

this still happens when changing from the pre-set spelling autocorrect of English UK to French.

Auto-Correct is not what this topic is about, and Auto-Correct is not related to Spell Checking.

There is one set of Auto-Correct settings for each of the languages that function supports, and the way it works is that if the text you are typing is tagged as being in that language, then the auto-correction will be applied to correct strings as you type them. If you are typing text tagged as French, then the list of auto-corrections for French is used, but if you are typing text tagged as English then the list of auto-corrections for English is applied.