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Additional Spelling languages
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OS X spellchecker is essentially the open-source Hunspell engine. It uses *.aff and *.dic files as spelling dictionaries. This is the same format as used by OpenOffice and many other applications. You can either try to locate *.aff and *.dic files for your language somehow, or you can download the corresponding OpenOffice dictionary extension. That is an OXT file, which is essentially a zip with a custom file extension. Unzip it with a zip utility, and copy the dictionary files to ~/Library/Spelling. It should work.
Thanks. I copied both files .aff / .dic in this folder, but the language doe snot appear under the spelling menu. An din ~/Library/Spelling folder I do no shave ny other languages at all... just LocalDictionary file and dynamic-text.dat / dynamic-counts.dat files
Look at the Keyboard/Text under Settings. Does it appear in the Set Up spelling menu? It is possible that you need to check the box.
What dictionary are you using? I tried with a third-party dictionary of Ukrainian, and it worked.
P.S. By now, I am starting to doubt my sanity as apparently features that work under my 10.11 installation do not work for anyone else 😛
I use ~/Library/Spelling . Now overwrite again both files and it worked 🙂 Bulgarian language appeared in the settings. Thanks!
stonerdt
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In Yosemite I could put the .aff and .dic Slovak dictionary files in the System/Library/Spelling location on my Mac HD so it was universal for all users but now in El Capitan, that folder is no longer there. So I also put it in my ~/library/spelling location and it shows up in my spell checker. I liked the first option but cannot tell where it might be now. I used to see the Polish dictionary in this system folder with the .aff and .dic extensions but it is not anywhere now either.