That has no bearing on the spell checker in the browser.cliffcoggin wrote: ⤴Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:33 am I suspect the problem is more basic than Firefox or Libreoffice. Search for Languages in the menu and see what is set as default language. I use
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Re: British spelling
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Re: British spelling
See3ducks has not specified that it is only browser behaviour that is affected as far as I can see. Perhaps he should give us more details.Moem wrote: ⤴Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:38 amThat has no bearing on the spell checker in the browser.cliffcoggin wrote: ⤴Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:33 am I suspect the problem is more basic than Firefox or Libreoffice. Search for Languages in the menu and see what is set as default language. I use
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In his second post he did mention FFcliffcoggin wrote: ⤴Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:51 amSee3ducks has not specified that it is only browser behaviour that is affected as far as I can see. Perhaps he should give us more details.Moem wrote: ⤴Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:38 amThat has no bearing on the spell checker in the browser.cliffcoggin wrote: ⤴Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:33 am I suspect the problem is more basic than Firefox or Libreoffice. Search for Languages in the menu and see what is set as default language. I use
see3ducks wrote: ⤴Mon Dec 10, 2018 4:49 pmThis does seem to be through the browser that came with Mint. I tried installing the U.S. English dictionary for Firefox, shut down and restarted Firefox but they still insist I should spell color colour. Just now the first spelling of color showed an error.
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You are not going through a VPN by chance are you? If so heck if you are going through a server in the UK - something similar has happened to be when accessing a server in Germany.
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Now I find this? See attachment. English (US) incompatible with v 64.0? Can this be true?
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Do you even need a language pack extension for US English? I haven't got one and US is still available as a display language as-well as a spellcheck language.
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No, language packs have nothing to do with spellcheck dictionaries. Language packs are about the UI language, nothing else. You can see the dictionaries category is very separate from that right in his screenshot.
I'm honestly not sure how much of this thread is actually trolling, the concept that your selected dictionary language affects your spell-checker should be more than self-evident...
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At this point all is can say is "she's a broke". I don't know what I do need or what I don't need. Someone at Mozilla said something like they had nothing to do with language packs as they were added by ...... I forgot. I think they might have been blaming the repository - dunno. Anyway, this is weird. Oh well, half of my spelling comes out British anyway Do I marked this as [UN-SOLVED] just to get it over?
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EWE can Spel weRds eny way ewe like! Spell check will underline them, but will let you ignore the suggestions anyway, so where's the problem?
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I'm a little confused here. If you enable spellcheck, then it will give a red wavy underline to words that don't match that dictionary. It doesn't 'insist' or modify and should be interpreted entirely as a mere suggestion made by a dumb machine based on a dumb dictionary. Indeed efforts to improve matters merely confuse users of Merican and US English even more...gm10 wrote: ⤴Mon Dec 10, 2018 4:54 pmWorks fine here. Check your setting:see3ducks wrote: ⤴Mon Dec 10, 2018 4:49 pmThis does seem to be through the browser that came with Mint. I tried installing the U.S. English dictionary for Firefox, shut down and restarted Firefox but they still insist I should spell color colour. Just now the first spelling of color showed an error.
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Yet you are stating they still insist I should spell color colour which leads me to suggest the main problem here is over-reaction, perhaps an irritating internal mental dialogue which needs taming.
I'm in Thailand, so my keyboard has USD, my pocket and bank has THB, but the date is ALWAYS typed 04-03-2019 - and 2019-03-04 and it's never confusing whether it's 3rd April or 3th March right? I'm curious why you read money like $152 'one hundred fifty two' instead of 'one hundred two fifty' and then mess up your dates so badly... and then get pissed off when the browser correctly starts complaining when you type 'aloominum' and tells you it should be 'aluminium' instead. This issue is generally more irritating for British users, who actually learn spelling in schools and having spelled 'colour' for 40 years find it unnecessary to dumb down the language removing commonly understood RULES like adding 'ed' to a word to turn 'spell' into 'spelled' instead of just writing the sound 'spelt'. This is actually one of my favourite examples where the apparently 'American dumbing down' is in reverse, it's the Americans that used 'spelled' and stoopid British writers using 'spelt' and bringin' in yet another irregular form to be learned by immigrants.
Interestingly in Chromium, I noticed that (unlike Firefox) there's an option to use 'all your languages' for spellchecking. So I have US and UK enabled, and Chromium doesn't underline colour or color. You can also add 'aloominum' to your dictionary so that your browser will no longer upset you so badly.
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that's interesting - - with you being in Thailand - - would have thought that you'd be more US centric,,
- than British orientated.
anyway - - Do be a Little more cautious about Your Statements - - This is an International Forum - Y'know.
- - you Don't want to tread on too many toes .. .. .
- than British orientated.
anyway - - Do be a Little more cautious about Your Statements - - This is an International Forum - Y'know.
- - you Don't want to tread on too many toes .. .. .
Please edit your original post title to include [SOLVED] - when your problem is solved!
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Re: British spelling
see3ducks wrote: ⤴Mon Dec 10, 2018 2:16 pm Mint 19 Cinnamon 64 bit.
Ever since I installed this version of Mint, it wants me to spell color colour and favorite favourite, etc, etc. I checked it is indeed set to U.S. English. What's with the British spelling and how do I get the spell checker to recognize the American spellings?
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I gave up on that crap 2 years ago.........
there just simply are NOT any dictionaries that are for Redneck Americans to use.
it pisses me off that I have to put up with words spelled wrongly, and even if I add the proper words to the dictionaries, they are NEVER suggested as a proper word.
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Installing Mint in Portuguese. In Firefox I'm seen the majority web pages in English because the language is not setted automatically as occurs in Libreoffice. Is possible to automatically set this configuration in installation process?
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It seems to me the locale of your system is set to English rather than Portuguese. This will affect the language the browser may pick.jpescola wrote: ⤴Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:01 am Captura de tela de 2019-03-27 11-54-06.png
Installing Mint in Portuguese. In Firefox I'm seen the majority web pages in English because the language is not setted automatically as occurs in Libreoffice. Is possible to automatically set this configuration in installation process?
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Nope! I have choosen Portuguese in installation process.vansloneker wrote: ⤴Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:39 pmIt seems to me the locale of your system is set to English rather than Portuguese. This will affect the language the browser may pick.jpescola wrote: ⤴Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:01 am Captura de tela de 2019-03-27 11-54-06.png
Installing Mint in Portuguese. In Firefox I'm seen the majority web pages in English because the language is not setted automatically as occurs in Libreoffice. Is possible to automatically set this configuration in installation process?
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All mainstream browsers collect your location data to set various parameters, so maybe there is some conflict going on with all that?
As an aside i just needed to apologise for my fellow countrymen that might come of a bit 'blow hard' in their comments in this thread, we are Brexiting and it is not bringing the best out of us, so sorry for any out of order statements from fellow British folk!
Also as an aside i find this thread slightly amusing as for decades i have had to suffer under Windows OS that always seemed to resist my attempts to make them behave better with British English spelling. I am a poor speller, and having to fight my OS that wanted to make me consistently worse was rather taxing. So i completely empathise with the OP in their struggles here (whether it is OS related or Browser related etc) even if for the opposite reasons!
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As an aside i just needed to apologise for my fellow countrymen that might come of a bit 'blow hard' in their comments in this thread, we are Brexiting and it is not bringing the best out of us, so sorry for any out of order statements from fellow British folk!
Also as an aside i find this thread slightly amusing as for decades i have had to suffer under Windows OS that always seemed to resist my attempts to make them behave better with British English spelling. I am a poor speller, and having to fight my OS that wanted to make me consistently worse was rather taxing. So i completely empathise with the OP in their struggles here (whether it is OS related or Browser related etc) even if for the opposite reasons!
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Re: British spelling
Fortunately I can spell very well; unfortunately I can neither type nor see as well as I once did, so I find myself relying more and more on a spell checker.ZakGordon wrote: ⤴Sun Mar 31, 2019 4:05 am
Also as an aside i find this thread slightly amusing as for decades i have had to suffer under Windows OS that always seemed to resist my attempts to make them behave better with British English spelling. I am a poor speller, and having to fight my OS that wanted to make me consistently worse was rather taxing. So i completely empathise with the OP in their struggles here (whether it is OS related or Browser related etc) even if for the opposite reasons!
As a further aside I was pleased to see that deleted files are sent to Rubbish Bin, not Trash, in Linux Mint. I presume that's a result of Canonical being in Britain.
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