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Old 08-25-2015, 04:38 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by ColMac View Post
My PC is in the UK and naturally set up only for English UK.

I have a number of books that I have got from US sources, and if I check spelling using Edit Book, I get a lot of errors reported where a US spelling is used in the book, but the spell checker reports it as an English(GB) word. I would like to eliminate these reports and check some books using a US dictionary.


In the example I am looking at currently, there is no language defined in the book's (epub) metadata.

In Edit Book preferences, I have set English-US as the preferred Variant for the English language

In the Calibre Help file it says " .... Language information is taken from the books metadata and from lang attributes in the HTML files. ...."

I have searched "All text files for any lang codes, and the only one I can find is on the title page as follows.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">


I have also searched for a GB text string and got no hits.

So something is still forcing the spell-checker to identify these words as English (GB).

Can anyone point me in the direction of a possible solution please.
The metadata starts with the books (Language} in the Library (it normally comes from the book upon adding.

BTW, look in the content.opf

<dc:language>en-GB</dc:language>
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