Multilanguage support

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Multilanguage support

Short: For bilingual or multilingual users there should be a keyboard shortcut to change spell-checking and an option to have spell-checking changed simultaneously with the character palette.

It is pretty easy and comfortable to switch between character palettes with just a keyboard shortcut. Thanks to Apple for this future in Mac OS X.

However it is really a pity (and not understandable) why there is no possibility to switch the spell-check-language with such a shortcut or even better an option to have it switched together with the character palette.

For a multilingual person like me who switches language several times an hour it's really annoying to use the OSX spell-check. And when I change character palette in 90% of the cases I do write in the chosen language and would therefore also also enjoy getting the matching spell-check.

Please give us the option to switch spell-checking while switching character palette (and for those who don't switch character palette also implement a spell-check keyboard shortcut). A small improvement which makes our live and work so much faster and easyer.

(For users searching for short time solutions check out http://www.cocoacrumbs.com/blog/?p=96)

Please comment if you support this issue!

Thank you for you time!

OS-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on May 11, 2011 3:12 PM

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Answer 1

etresoft

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May 11, 2011 4:24 PM in response to tave

The appropriate place for such requests is: Apple - Feedback

Have you tried setting your spell checker to "Automatic by language"?

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Answer 2

Tom Gewecke

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May 11, 2011 7:02 PM in response to tave

You are using the term Character Palette incorrectly. Instead you want to say "keyboard layout".

The app Nisus Writer does provide a setting in its preferences for linking keyboard layout with spell checker and activating that via a keyboard shortcut. You might want to try it.

iOS, used in the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, does automatically link spellcheck with the choice of keyboard layout.

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Answer 3

sheffi

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May 31, 2011 1:06 PM in response to tave

Tave I sympathise with you I would like to see bi lingual interface as well if sit next to my kid who is Japanese and does not know much English when I am showing him or her how to use the Mac in English then another language is needed ,some how it could be done

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Answer 4

tave Author

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May 31, 2011 3:19 PM in response to tave

Hi there,

Thanks for all your comments!

@etrestoft: I'm sorry, forgot to mention that I already feed backed this over the official channel. Just wanted to open a public debate on the same subject.

Multilanguage support is not a solution for this as it doesn't provide a sufficient correction anymore.

@Tom Gewecke: Thanks for the correction, its true, I was referring to the keyboard-layout (the functional not the visual one). Having a specific writer doesn't really solve the problem (I can write in Firefox where it's really simple to swtich between spell-checking-languages). The problem is that it occurs in a lot of applications (Mail, Notes, Dashboard etc.) really anoying then is the fact that Pages for example has a third option.

I know the iOS situation but this one isn't perfect either, there I miss the option to easily deactivate suggestions and spellchecking. When I write Standardgerman, French or English its really usefull but when I'm writing some dialect text messages it's super annoying to always correct the automatic corrections.

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