Spellchecker in the UK

[Peter Johnson]

Hello
I'm in the UK. I've set up Vista with 'current location = UK', the format is
English (United Kingdom), language for non-unicode programs is English
(United Kingdom), the only keyboard configured is English (United Kingdom).
This is all perfectly satisfactory in Word.
In Mail settings I have the spell checker turned on and the language shown
as English, perhaps significantly it does not say English (United Kingdom).

Can anyone suggest why Mail checks spelling against a US dictionary and does
not refer to my custom.dic? Better still, can anyone say how to configure
Mail to use my system settings?

Many thanks.

 

[Victor Delta]

Hello
I'm in the UK. I've set up Vista with 'current location = UK', the format
is English (United Kingdom), language for non-unicode programs is English
(United Kingdom), the only keyboard configured is English (United
Kingdom). This is all perfectly satisfactory in Word.
In Mail settings I have the spell checker turned on and the language shown
as English, perhaps significantly it does not say English (United
Kingdom).

Can anyone suggest why Mail checks spelling against a US dictionary and
does not refer to my custom.dic? Better still, can anyone say how to
configure Mail to use my system settings?

Many thanks.

We've all been there too! See the replies I got
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30331524/uk-english-spell-checker.aspx

Looks as if we'll have to wait at least till SP1 for a UK spell checker...!

V

 

[Peter Johnson]

Victor said:

We've all been there too! See the replies I got
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30331524/uk-english-spell-checker.aspx

Looks as if we'll have to wait at least till SP1 for a UK spell
checker...!

Bonkers! As you said, it worked in XP. The functionality should have been
retained.

Thanks for the link.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Peter.

The short answer (yes, there is a longer one, but I don't have it memorized)
is that OE always used the spell checker built into Microsoft Office (or a
third-party product). WM has its own checker built in - but not all
languages are available yet.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[Steve Cochran]

There is a UserDictionary.lex file in the message store directory that
WinMail uses for its custom dictionary. That is editable in Notepad and you
can add words with English (UK) spelling. You can't however remove "color"
and replace it with "colour", but you can add "colour" that way.

steve