To Stefan:-
This may be oversimplifying things, but do you have an Apple computer? If so, 
look at the top right-hand corner to see what language you are using, click on 
that symbol and then click on OPEN LANGUAGE AND TEXT. You will have 
approximately 50 languages to choose from.


On 2011-01-08, at 11:48 PM, RA Brown wrote:

> On Sat Jan 08 2011 20:31:31 GMT-0800 (PST)  Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Go into Tools > Selection > Font > Language (you may have to download
>>> additional dictionaries, but they are available).
>> I mean if I select "More..." from the "Tools => Language => For Selection"
>> menu and then use the "Language" box in the "Font" pane, right?
>>> Once you have added Spanish, it will always show up in your list.  (I
>>> work with English, French, German and Hungarian).
>> In my experience a language only appears in the list if it appears in
>> the current document, or if it's my locale or my default language or my
>> GUI language.  So what you say above is not quite right: it will only
>> appear in the menu as long while you edit that document where you
>> applied this other language, and only as long as that language is used
>> somewhere in the document:
>> If I set Language to Spanish on a chunk of text, and then set it back to
>> English, then the menu again only shows French and English.
>> The best I could figure out for now is to carefully choose different
>> languages for the locale, the GUI, and the default document language,
>> which lets you "choose" up to 3 languages that will always appear in the
>> menu, but at the cost of influencing various aspects of the behavior.
>>        Stefan
> 
> First things first, have you installed the required dictionaries? Tools-> 
> Extension Manager, on the lower left click on "Get more extensions 
> on-line..".  Search the site for the dictionaries and install then, click the 
>  Add  button on the Manager dialog.
> 
> HTH
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