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Problem with setting up spell checker

Diana Flower

I have just installed Studio 2015 and done my first translation but find spell checker is greyed out and 'Language not supported' displayed.

I selected English (European) as the target language when loading the translation and wonder whether this is causing trouble.

Is there any simple solution that doesn't involve a lot of knowledge? The other solutions in the forum look horribly complicated and I'd be scared stiff tackling them!

Thanks in advance.
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    Hi Diana,

    The workaround is tweaking the Hunspell dictionaries, but I guess that's the solution you've found on the forum. It's not really that complicated, it just involves a little copying-renaming-pasting of files and a small tweak to an xml file. The only bit of info you would need to have before you get started is the language code for English (European), then you can simply copy the files for US or UK English, whichever you want to use and rename them for this new language code, then add that to the xml file.

    These are the steps.

    Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Studio4\HunspellDictionaries

    And locate

    en_US.aff
    en_US.dic

    or the pair for any other English variant you want to use as the basis for your new spellchecking files.

    Then copy the files (maybe to a different folder first, just to be safe). Rename the new files with the name of the English (European) language code instead of en_US.

    Then locate spellcheckmanager_config.xml, copy the file to another location and open it in a text editor like Notepad (I like Notepad++). Scroll down to where you find this:

    <language>
    <isoCode>en-US</isoCode>
    <dict>en_US</dict>
    </language>

    Copy all four lines and paste them right below, replacing en-US and en_US with the appropriate code for English (European). Make sure not to replace the hyphen with an underscore and viceversa. Save the file.

    Once done, copy all 3 modified files to C:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Studio4\HunspellDictionaries. The aff and dic files will be new, but Windows will ask if you want to replace the existing xml file with the modified one. Select Yes.

    After doing this, restart Studio and go to Options-Editor-Spelling-Active Spell Checker and select Hunspell instead of Word. Now you should be all set.