Spellcheck Italian

Question

Dear SDL Community, 
 I have some trouble with the spellcheck function for the Italian language. This function seems to work if Italian (Italy) is selected as target language. However, most of the time the target language I worked to is Italian (Switzerland) , as agencies having Swiss clients send me xlf file where the target language is already set. In that case the spellcheck is disabled and cannot be selected. 
 - Screenshot of disabled function when translatin into Swiss Italian. 
 
 How can I abilitate the function for Swiss italian too? 
 Thank you 
 Regards 
 
 Ilaria

Paul · Answer

Hi Ilaria, 
 
Do you use Hunspell or Microsoft for your spell checking? 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Ilaria,

ok. That gives me a clue. I was interested to know what you were trying to use for spellchecking in Studio and not in Office (whichever version you use). But if you use LibreOffice then your problem has to be related to you using HunSpell in Studio as opposed to Microsoft. These only have it-IT and not it-CH. But you can correct this yourself by adding this language as explained in this KB:

kb.sdl.com/.../article

So you copy these files:

it_IT.aff
it_IT.dic

Then save them as

it_CH.aff
it_CH.dic

Make the changes in the spellcheckmanager_config.xml files as explained in the KB article:

<LANGUAGE>
<ISOCODE>it_CH</ISOCODE>
<DICT>it_CH</DICT>
</LANGUAGE>

And Bob's your Uncle! At least I think this is what your problem is!

Regards

Paul

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Paul · Answer

Dear Ilaria, 
 
You're looking in the wrong place. All the files are in here: 
 
c:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Studio4\HunspellDictionaries\ 
 
This assumes Studio 2015. Use Studio3 or lower for earlier versions of Studio. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Dear Ilaria, 
 
It has everything to do with windows ;-) Copy the file to your desktop, make the change and then copy it back. You'll be prompted to do this as administrator and then it will work. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

ok. Can you run the editor you are using to make this change as admin? This is not the same as being the admin on your computer. Start the editor by right-clicking and select "Run as administrator".

Paul · Answer

Hi Ilaria, 
 
ok - can you go to the file that starts WordPad and right click this to run as admin? So not the config file, rather the WordPad program. Run this as admin and then open then config file from within WordPad itself. 
 
If you still can't do this can we look at this together over Skype? Drop me an email with your Skype address and we can do this tomorrow sometime. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Ilaria, 
 
Can we do a Skype session so I can take a look? I think it will be more efficient. Drop me an email at pfilkin@sdl.com and we can exchange Skype details. 
 
Thanks 
 
Paul

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Spellcheck Italian