Since I upgraded to Snow Leopard everything I write gets spell checked in American English. This is bloody infuriating. I've check that everything is set to British English in System Prefs but to no avail. Can anyone advise me on what to do next?
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British English Mac spell checker?
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British English Mac spell checker?
by BlueMeanie » 11 Mar 2010, 15:20
p€nk wrote:B is more consistent, but only because they just copied the tracklisting of a compilation CD they bought in Tesco in 1973.
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Re: British English Mac spell checker?
by JQW » 11 Mar 2010, 15:33
Go to System Preferences, Language & Text, Text. What's Spelling set to here?
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Re: British English Mac spell checker?
by BlueMeanie » 11 Mar 2010, 15:35
JQW wrote:Go to System Preferences, Language & Text, Text. What's Spelling set to here?
British English. It was set to American but I changed it. Hasn't made any difference though.
p€nk wrote:B is more consistent, but only because they just copied the tracklisting of a compilation CD they bought in Tesco in 1973.
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Re: British English Mac spell checker?
by dang65 » 11 Mar 2010, 15:53
BlueMeanie wrote:This is bloody infuriating.
suggestion: A god-dam pain in the ass.
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Re: British English Mac spell checker?
by BlueMeanie » 11 Mar 2010, 15:59
dang65 wrote:BlueMeanie wrote:This is bloody infuriating.
suggestion: A god-dam pain in the ass.
Yep, it has no problems with that!
p€nk wrote:B is more consistent, but only because they just copied the tracklisting of a compilation CD they bought in Tesco in 1973.
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Re: British English Mac spell checker?
by JQW » 11 Mar 2010, 16:07
I've checked Apple's support discussion boards, and there's several others with the same problem. The only fixes that worked were to re-install the whole operating system, or to install a third-party custom dictionary and then manually force all of your applications individually to use it.
I'd wait until Mac OS X 10.6.3 appears before doing anything really drastic, as these kinds of problems tend to get fixed in maintenance releases. All indications are that 10.6.3 should be appearing very soon, in time for updated versions of the Mac Pro line to appear next Tuesday.
I'd wait until Mac OS X 10.6.3 appears before doing anything really drastic, as these kinds of problems tend to get fixed in maintenance releases. All indications are that 10.6.3 should be appearing very soon, in time for updated versions of the Mac Pro line to appear next Tuesday.
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Re: British English Mac spell checker?
by BlueMeanie » 11 Mar 2010, 19:30
I'll wait then. Seems I can't manually force Safari into changing dictionaries. Thanks for the help, I'll wait for the next upgrade.
p€nk wrote:B is more consistent, but only because they just copied the tracklisting of a compilation CD they bought in Tesco in 1973.
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Re: British English Mac spell checker?
by JQW » 17 Mar 2010, 01:05
Well, there were no Mac Pro models announced today, but Intel did announce that their new range of high-end processors are out, so I'd expect the new models to now appear next week, with 10.6.3 appearing by then too.
I've also seen a list of the bugs fixed in 10.6.3, and there's several fixes to the spellchecking system, but it doesn't go into any real details as their precise nature.
I've also seen a list of the bugs fixed in 10.6.3, and there's several fixes to the spellchecking system, but it doesn't go into any real details as their precise nature.
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Re: British English Mac spell checker?
by JQW » 24 Mar 2010, 18:15
I believe we should see the release of 10.6.3 later today. Settlers 7 is being released tomorrow, and that lists 10.6.3 as a pre-requisite for installation.
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Re: British English Mac spell checker?
by JQW » 29 Mar 2010, 17:38
Mac OS X 10.6.3 is now out. It's a big update - at least 438MB.
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Re: British English Mac spell checker?
by BlueMeanie » 30 Mar 2010, 19:24
JQW wrote:Mac OS X 10.6.3 is now out. It's a big update - at least 438MB.
Took a while but it seems to have fixed the problem.
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