(This is basically an expanded version of the argument in comment 80, which I'm agreeing with but have one more use case.)
Multi-language spell checking could be good as a user default but there are two use cases where it is problematic, both of which are 'page- defined': 1) Language teaching. The user is English but is learning French. We want to enable the French spellchecker (that doesn't accept English words) in a text field which is defined for French language entry even though their default language is English. As far as possible, this should work without them having to configure anything. I realise that probably won't work because they'll have to at least install the dictionary, but... 2) Multi-lingual content entry. The user may be English or French and ordinarily would prefer a spellchecker dictionary that accepts both, but on this occasion is entering content for a multilingual website. The form contains two text areas, one for English and one for French. The English one should show French spellings as errors and the French one should show English spellings as errors. Again this should work without them having to configure anything. If there is concern about pages that are incorrectly defined, then one possible heuristic to spot 'the page designer really means it' cases would be to see if the lang or xml:lang attribute is explicitly defined on the textarea (or other spellcheck-required) tag itself rather than a higher-up tag. In other words, say the page has lang="en" due to some broken authoring tool, but the user's preferred language is French (or French + English + Spanish, in the new wonderful multi-spellchecker world) then perhaps the user preference should always override the page language. But if there is a specific <textarea lang="en"> on the page then it should default to the page-specified language (English only on this case), allowing the user a right-click override. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303269 Title: Automatically select language for spell check based on user input To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/303269/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
