Spellcheck languageis US English

[Jonathan Crawford]

Hi
color
I am sorry if this has been answered earlier, I have checked a few thousand
entries and not found an answer

The spellchecker is using a US dictionary, I am English and need an English
dictionary.
I can't find any information about how to add an English dictionary. I have
been
to tools, options, spelling and the options are English, French, Spanish and
German.
However the English is not English but American

What can I do?

thanks

jc

 

[Julian]

Hi
color
I am sorry if this has been answered earlier, I have checked a few
thousand
entries and not found an answer

The spellchecker is using a US dictionary, I am English and need an
English dictionary.
I can't find any information about how to add an English dictionary. I
have been
to tools, options, spelling and the options are English, French, Spanish
and German.
However the English is not English but American

What can I do?

Use this instead... http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/

 

[Jonathan Crawford]

Not particularly what I had in mind.
I think a better option is to dump Vista and return
to XP. The more I use Vista, the worse it seems.

I am offended by the fact the MS could launch this
without full localisation. It shows their contempt
for foreign users. This is compounded by the fact that they don't
address the issue in any way. A little notice in the help file admitting
their omission would have saved me an hour of searching.

shameful stuff

jc

 

[Andrew McLaren]

I am offended by the fact the MS could launch this
without full localisation. It shows their contempt
for foreign users. This is compounded by the fact that they don't
address the issue in any way. A little notice in the help file admitting
their omission would have saved me an hour of searching.

shameful stuff

I agree. However ... I discussed the question of localising Vista into
Commonwealth English (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada, Singapore
etc) with some Microsoft program managers at a technical conference. The
response was polite and reasonable, but it boiled down to this: the cost of
developing a localised Commonwealth English version is greater than the
amount of revenue Microsoft would lose from aggrieved English-speaking users
refusing to buy the US version of Vista. So it was not economically
feasible. Shame or cultural (dis)respect did not enter the equation.

If a couple of UK or Australian Banks and government departments demaned a
localised version of Windows, we *might* see it considered as a possibiility
for the next major release (c2010?). Might. Maybe. Possibly ...

It's all the more galling, because Vista has introduced so many new
Americanisms into the interface: "Network Center", "Personalize", etc.

Meanwhile, I can get quite a good localised expereince in Ubuntu, and
several other Linux/open source products. Not that I want to go that way ...
but may be forced to ...