https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162875
Bug ID: 162875
Summary: Spell checker suggests the wrong languages
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.0.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
As LibreOffice doesn't recognize automatically the language of a paragraph, you
need to select it and then right click on the status bar to set it manually.
In my particular case, when I installed LibreOffice, I selected three languages
(Spanish [Spain], English [UK] and English [USA]), so you would expect that
LibreOffice would suggest these three languages for the paragraph. However,
this is often not the case:
1. There are times when only one or two of these three languages are directly
offered.
2. I've just experienced a case where I created a new Writer document, I pasted
some English text from the web and LibreOffice suggested me Hawaiian as an
option. It's not the first time that I get a random suggestion.
If the language of the paragraph isn't directly offered, you need to click on
"Set Language for paragraph", which takes you to a drop-down list that looks
almost the same as the previous drop-down list. Very often, you don't get what
you need here either and you need to click again, this time on "More", in order
to go to the "Character" section. Once there, you need to click on another
drop-down list and go through a huge number of languages. The whole process is
really time-consuming.
In general, I think that the whole experience of using the spell checker and,
in particular, the way a language is suggested and applied to a paragraph,
could be improved. I wonder if there are plans to revamp the spell checker:
looking at what Thunderbird does with the spell checking could be a source of
inspiration.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. You select a paragraph.
2. You right click on the status bar to set the language of the spell checker.
Actual Results:
Random languages are sometimes offered.
Expected Results:
LibreOffice should directly suggest the languages you've previously installed.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
Version: 24.8.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0bdf1299c94fe897b119f97f3c613e9dca6be583
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render:
Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
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