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Spell checker is disabled (language not supported)

Enrique Chi

Hello all:

I am running SDL Trados Studio 2015, and I want to spell check a project with the target language Spanish (Latin America). I read about how the Hunspell spellchecker only works with Spanish (Spain) and Spanish (Mexico), and also how to add other languages. So, I copied the dictionary files es_MX.aff and es_MX.dic, and renamed them es_LA.aff, and es_LA.dic, and also edited the spellcheckmanager_config.xml file to add my target language, but this has not worked. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Saludos,

Enrique
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    Hi Enrique,

    I haven't tested this yet but my theory would be your language codes are wrong.  The ISO code for Latin America is actually es-419 so perhaps try es_419.aff and es_419.dic and edit the config file appropriately.

    There are so many now it's getting tricky to track them, but the easiest way to see what Studio is using is to open a file for translation as a single document translation  in the language direction you want and the file name will contain the language codes being used.  You can see this immediately at the top of the application.  So I opened a sample file and I see this:

    Hope that works!

    Paul

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    Paul:

    thank you. I had searched online for a list of "language codes", but did not find a place with an authoritative answer. I had seen the 419, but was skeptical about it, since it wasn't a two-letter code like the rest.

    Just to expand on your tip about how to see the language code, I opened a file from the project and in the editor screen, by hovering the mouse over the file name you get the full path of the file, and somewhere towards the middle of the path was the language code.

    I modified the file names and the entry in the spellchecker manager file, and now I can spell check! Yay!

    I'm still rather displeased with the software engineer who decided not to make a lookup table that allows using the same dictionary for different flavors of the SAME language. But that's just me.

    Saludos,
    Enrique
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    Paul:

    thank you. I had searched online for a list of "language codes", but did not find a place with an authoritative answer. I had seen the 419, but was skeptical about it, since it wasn't a two-letter code like the rest.

    Just to expand on your tip about how to see the language code, I opened a file from the project and in the editor screen, by hovering the mouse over the file name you get the full path of the file, and somewhere towards the middle of the path was the language code.

    I modified the file names and the entry in the spellchecker manager file, and now I can spell check! Yay!

    I'm still rather displeased with the software engineer who decided not to make a lookup table that allows using the same dictionary for different flavors of the SAME language. But that's just me.

    Saludos,
    Enrique
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