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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon electron-userland

Spellchecker on Mac doesn't automatically detect the language

Open clusterberries opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments

Hi! I've run the example app on Windows and on Mac, system language is English on both systems. The language is correctly detected on Windows, I tried English and Russian. But it doesn't work on Mac, see the screenshot. The last Russian word should be highlighted. Spellcheck works only for English language. screen shot 2017-04-17 at 11 48 01

clusterberries avatar Apr 17 '17 08:04 clusterberries

I can confirm that, detection fails on Mac

mediaslav avatar Apr 28 '17 16:04 mediaslav

Language detection is done solely by NSSpellChecker, which means that switching between different character sets is gonna have a bad time right now. Chromium won't even send you spell check requests for a language other than the set one - on Windows, we detect this scenario (i.e. keys are being typed but no spell check requests are coming in), redetect the language, then switch the Chromium spellcheck component. We need to ditch NSSpellChecker's detection and rely on our own.

anaisbetts avatar Apr 29 '17 17:04 anaisbetts

@paulcbetts Any update on this? The spellchecker doesn't detect language automatically on macOS. On other OS it works pretty well.

akashnimare avatar Oct 13 '17 20:10 akashnimare