Why is spell checker disabled for Latin American Spanish in Studio 2015?

Question

Latin American Spanish is supposed to be supported by SDL Trados Studio 2015 so I chose it as one of my 5 languages when installing Studio, then why is the spell checker disabled when working with LA Spanish files?

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hi Sandy,

You didn't mention whether you are using the Microsoft spellchecker or Hunspell and there is a difference between them. If you use Microsoft then this is determined by the availability of this language spelling ability in MS Office. If you use Hunspell then it's determined by the availability of the appropriate variation of Spanish from Hunspell. I checked my build, although I'm not sure I still have the default, but there is no Spanish LA, only es-ES, es-MX and not es-LA. So you would need to correct this yourself by adding this language as explained in this KB:

kb.sdl.com/.../article

So you copy these files:

es_MX.aff
es_MX.dic

or these:

es_ES.aff
es_ES.dic

Then save them as

es_419.aff
es_419.dic

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

<LANGUAGE>
<ISOCODE>es_419</ISOCODE>
<DICT>es_419</DICT>
</LANGUAGE>

I found the language code by opening a file with Spanish LA and looking at the code used in the sdlxliff. Hopefully this will be the problem you are having?

Regards

Paul

Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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Why is spell checker disabled for Latin American Spanish in Studio 2015?