Matthew L. Avizinis wrote:
I'm curious. Does the OOo version for each language automatically
include a spellchecker and make it actice for that particular language?
e.g., I use the English version of OOo hence this stuff was setup for
English (USA) by default when I installed the program. Wouldn't that be
the same for other language versions as well?
I'm not sure what every version does.
But when I, a Canadian, download a new English-language version of
OpenOffice.org., all defaults are set to US-English. I presume the same
is true for Australians, Brits and so forth. The Canadian English
dictionary, the Australian English dictionary, and so forth are not
included by default but must be obtained afterwards, usually through
File -> Wizards -> Install New Dictionaries ...
Even if the downloaded version of OpenOffice.org is configured to
default to the language or language variant that the user mostly wants,
that doesn't mean it will stay that way. Writer respects the styles
found in documents it reads, and a user may happen to make a document
into a often-used template, even the default template, not realizing
this changes default language attributes, especially since the language
settings in Options -> Language settings -> Languages are correct as far
as the user is concerned.
It is far from obvious that changing these has no effect on the language
attributes of the text.
Creating templates with unwanted default language attributes is
especially likely to happen when a new user is just playing with the
product. Then the user attempts to see how spell checking works. Perhaps
it works fine ... but not in the document that the user is testing
because the language attributes in that document are incorrect. Or the
user has changed his or her default template using such a document as a
base and now even new documents default to different language or
language variant.
Since a non-working spell-checker is totally silent, a user, especially
a user who doesn't use spell-checking much, may not notice that it is
not doing what it should, until, perhaps a month or more after
downloading Writer and playing with it sporadically, the user discovers
that spell-checking apparently doesn't work. And the user may not
understand or may not care to use styles ... and may have never gone to
or noticed the language attribute buried in Format -> Character -> Fonts.
I probably had OpenOffice.org installed for about three months before I
began to really fool around with it, and only much later did I actually
begin to examine what the spell-checker was actually doing and how it
worked and why sometimes it seemed it wasn't working.
Jallan
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