Auto-correct

[Rocou]

Hello,

Auto-correct does not work with the chosen language (in this case, French for me). It is always the English dictionary that is active.

(1.7.1 version - Imac 2019 - Mojave 10.14.6)

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Auto-correction depends on proper specification of the language for the text. So:

1. What language preference do you have set in Preferences, General?
2. What Spelling language do you have set for the Text Frame or Paragraph Style or Character Style you're using for the text? (You can confirm that in the Character studio panel.)
3. Does Spell Checking work properly on that text, checking in French?

[Rocou]

On 6/29/2019 at 8:54 PM, walt.farrell said:

What Spelling language do you have set for the Text Frame or Paragraph Style or Character Style you're using for the text? (You can confirm that in the Character studio panel.)

Thanks! the problem was at that level.

To the developers : Perhaps by default, all language choices should be equal to the preferred language?

[walt.farrell]

21 minutes ago, Rocou said:

Thanks! the problem was at that level.

To the developers : Perhaps by default, all language choices should be equal to the preferred language?

Good to hear it's resolved for you.

By default, though, the spelling language is already be set to your preferred interface language from Preferences, General.

The way it works, from my experiments and reading here in the forums, is that the Paragraph Styles "No Style" and "Base" both take their spelling language from your preferred interface language. Therefore, any time you create a new document, and create new text via one of the Text Tools, it starts out with your preferred language.

You can change that by editing the Text Styles and saving a new default. Or by creating a Text Style that is not based on "Base".

So the real question is this: if your text was not set properly how did it get that way? If you typed it into a new document, using any of the standard styles, it should have had the right setting. Did you type it, using No Style or one of the standard Paragraph Styles? Or did you override by making your own Paragraph Style not based on "Base"?

Or, did you use some other mechanism that might have carried other styling information. For example, if you used copy/paste or if you Placed a .rtf or .docx file, the styling information that came along with the text might have overridden that automatic language processing.