Strange error with the spellchecker in Affinity Publisher 2.4.0

[LEB]

Hi,

I was able to reproduce the following unexpected behavior in Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 on MacOS.

1. Write a text in English, for example, but incorrectly set the language to French.
2. Write a second text in English, with the language set correctly to English.
3. Use the style pipette to apply the style of the second text to the first.
4. The text is now correctly defined as being in English, but the spellchecker still finds errors for non-French English words.

LEB

[walt.farrell]

14 minutes ago, LEB said:

Use the style pipette to apply the style of the second text to the first.

Exactly how did you do that? Did you have the text from step 1 selected (highlighted), or just the cursor somewhere in the text, or something else?

The details of what you did are very important to the result you got.

[Alfred]

18 minutes ago, LEB said:

The text is now correctly defined as being in English

What steps did you take to verify this?

[MikeTO]

I duplicated the problem with LEB's steps. The Style Picker tool reformats the text but doesn't trigger spell checking if the language changed. It's definitely a bug and it's new to me, I don't think it's been previously reported.

[LEB]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

What steps did you take to verify this?

I just clicked on the text and saw that the language was changed in the "Characters" settings.

[NathanC]

Hi @LEB,

This has now been logged, thanks for your report. 👍