Annoying US English spell check [not a board issue]

[Lorraine]

Is there any way to customise the spell check facility so that it doesn't flag up spellings which are correct in UK English? Otherwise can it be turned off by individual posters? I can see options such as 'BBCode is ON, [img] is ON' but I can't see a way to switch off the spell check, unfortunately.

Apart from that, I like the changes.

BELATED POST EDIT - it was not a message board issue, after all, and I've tracked down what was causing the problem, thanks to some help I was given on this thread, so please ignore the above.

[Art]

Nothing worse than being separated by a common language. We probably need more detail about the concern. The "British English" language pac is installed so I would think that any reasonably accurate spelling would be accepted.

More detail please?

[Lorraine]

Yes, I noticed 'British English' was there in the profile pages. Yet when I'm making a post, words such as colour or customise are being underlined in red in the posting window. If I try typing centre, that's underlined too. But if I spell the same words as color, customize, or center they are not underlined.

Testing out a few more differences, honour, enrolment, skilful, catalogue, programme, jewellery are UK English spellings which are underlined by the spell check.
Honor, enrollment, skillful, catalog, program, jewelry are all US English spellings which aren't flagged up. So I don't think the British English language pack is working.

Lorraine from across the pond, or the linguistic gulf!

[Kernos]

As far as I know there is no board spell checker built in. In fact there is no American English language pack available for this version RC5. In fact I have complaints about the opposite, that Am. English is not available

What Browser are you using Lorraine. If Safari in OS X, you need to to be sure your prefs are set for UK English system wide. If you are using a FireFox extension check its prefs or add dictionaries. I dont know much about Windows. Does it have a builtin spell checker that works in all programs?

In my case I just add the UK spellings. Like colour - double click on the word to select it, right click on it and pick learn spelling. There are lots of other words, like awen or druidry which I have done.

In any case when the post is submitted the red underlines will not show up.

Bill

[John T. Folden]

Yes, I noticed 'British English' was there in the profile pages. Yet when I'm making a post, words such as colour or customise are being underlined in red in the posting window. If I try typing centre, that's underlined too. But if I spell the same words as color, customize, or center they are not underlined.

Testing out a few more differences, honour, enrolment, skilful, catalogue, programme, jewellery are UK English spellings which are underlined by the spell check.
Honor, enrollment, skillful, catalog, program, jewelry are all US English spellings which aren't flagged up. So I don't think the British English language pack is working.

Lorraine from across the pond, or the linguistic gulf!

There is no Spell checker in phpBB. The language setting in UCP is for text displayed by the forum software itself and not a spell checking function for posts themselves. If you are seeing things marked as misspelt in your browser then it is either your web browser or OS that is doing the checking and therefore a client side issue. Check Control Panel or System Preferences (or the config settings of your web browser) for possible options.

[John T. Folden]

What Browser are you using Lorraine. If Safari in OS X, you need to to be sure your prefs are set for UK English system wide. If you are using a FireFox extension check its prefs or add dictionaries. I dont know much about Windows. Does it have a builtin spell checker that works in all programs?

Unlike OS X, Windows does not have built-in spell checking services (Vista may or may not but I haven't heard about it yet, if so).

[Lorraine]

Thanks Kernos and John. I didn't notice this happening ever before on the version 2 board, so of course I assumed it the underlining was happening because of the new board, not the browser or the OS. I'm using Windows XP with Firefox as the browser, so I'll investigate whether either of those are causing it. Clearly my browser must speak Merkin! I tend to use RoughDraft when I'm doing any writing on my PC and that doesn't spell check until I tell it to, which I prefer.

Lorraine

[Twig]

We have spell check?

[AndyO]

Lorraine, with Firefox and Win XP, if you right-click on the text window when posting a reply and choose 'properties' from the menu it'll tell you waht language dictionary is installed. If it's not English (United Kingdom) you can choose to ninstall it from the right-click menu. (Afterwards you might need to go into tools/options/advanced/general and ensure that UK English is at the top of the 'preferrede language for displaying pages' bit

[Lorraine]

That's great, AndyO, I think you've solved my problem! I downloaded the UK English Language pack last night and thought I had given it priority, but the spell check was still giving me the American spelling. I've just sorted it out using the right click.

[RedKite]

We have spell check?

Wish we did - 'cuz peepel like mee 'av dislexic keebords

I use Windows 98se and the IE6 browser so all I did was download IeSpell - http://www.iespell.com/ - it's free for personal use and can be customised by adding words like Awen etc...

I just wish the Preview box was the same width as the posted window - just in case you want something in the correct place when posted - could that be arranged....? - ( saves a lot of editing and trial and error )

[John T. Folden]

I just wish the Preview box was the same width as the posted window - just in case you want something in the correct place when posted - could that be arranged....? - ( saves a lot of editing and trial and error )

If you choose to use the optional "ProSilver" style theme in your User Control Panel then I do believe the preview is displayed in approximately the same size as the final post. personally, I think the ProSilver theme has several other nice bells and whistles, too.

[RedKite]

Aaaahh!.... - Don't like that one so much.  So let me see if I can stretch this line out long enough to wrap around to the next line on the Preview screen....

mmmmm - like it - can this feature be put into the other version..?

[John T. Folden]

Aaaahh!.... - Don't like that one so much.  So let me see if I can stretch this line out long enough to wrap around to the next line on the Preview screen....

mmmmm - like it - can this feature be put into the other version..?

The "SubSilver2" theme seems, mostly, designed as a simple stop-gap for existing boards that are upgrading and don't want to freak their users out. "ProSilver" is actually the version 3 default now so I'm guessing "SubSilver2" probably won't see a lot of attention from the phpBB developers (although this is just my entirely unfounded guess based on the fact that it is not installed by default).

John

[RedKite]

Sigh!.... that's progress.

[Twig]

So, how would I use my Outlook Express spell check on the board? It usually pops up when I send an email, but it doesn't show up here. Or do I download something different and then "fit" it onto the board somehow?

Geez, I am SO dysfunctional!!

[John T. Folden]

So, how would I use my Outlook Express spell check on the board? It usually pops up when I send an email, but it doesn't show up here. Or do I download something different and then "fit" it onto the board somehow?

Geez, I am SO dysfunctional!!

No, you wouldn't use Outlook Express.

If you use Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher for Windows then you can download and install ieSpell which will add spell checking functions to the browser - http://www.iespell.com

I can't help you with specifics as I use a Mac and it has system-wide spell checking built-in but I understand ieSpell is very easy to set up.

John

[Twig]

Thanks, John. I'll try that. I hope it has instructions for a 3-year old!

A Mac person, huh...

[John T. Folden]

Thanks, John. I'll try that. I hope it has instructions for a 3-year old!

hehe I have faith you will manage it.

A Mac person, huh...

'fraid so. I switched back in 2001 and have never regretted it one second. I have to service PCs all day so it's nice to come home to one that never gives me any trouble.

[Bracken]

Hi. I've just been into my user control panel and under board preferences I can choose my language. The only two choices are German and British English. No US English at all.

I don't know if that's got anything to do with anything. I'm just saying. I love the speedy new board, by the way. Cheers.