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Originally Posted by KevinH

What do people think of the following as a multi-language interface to SpellCheck?

I feel like that method would insert too much technical gobbledygook.

It would also make the most important column too busy and hard to read.

One of the key advantages of Spellcheck Lists is to rapidly skim words at a glance.

Originally Posted by KevinH

- it can be filtered very easily by language.

And why not a Language column, similar to Calibre? Along with human-readable language names:

Proposed:

Word          | Count  | Misspelled
______________|________|_____________      
en-us: word   | 1      | No
de: word      | 1      | Yes

becomes:

Word          | Count  | Language     | Misspelled
______________|________|______________|___________     
word          | 1      | English (US) | No
word          | 1      | German       | Yes

Note: In proposed, you cannot easily tell "word" from "word", because your eyes can't skim straight down a line. If going with that prefix method, whitespace would be important:

Word          | Count  | Misspelled
______________|________|_____________      
en-us: word   | 1      | No
de:    word   | 1      | Yes

(But I still feel that's the wrong way. Instead of words being front-and-center, the most important info becomes un-human-readable lang.)

Originally Posted by KevinH

- a user can easily create a language specific word to update or change or find by using the prefix

Too complicated/technical.

Again, looking at how Calibre does it: If you search, you can already sort by the Language column.

Search: the

Method 1. Sort by Word:

Spoiler:

^ Word        | Count  | Language     | Misspelled
______________|________|______________|___________ 
the           | 1      | English (US) | No
the           | 1      | German       | Yes
their         | 1      | English (US) | No
Theos         | 1      | English (US) | Yes
thesis        | 1      | English (US) | No

Helpful for catching bad lang markup, OCR errors, etc.

Method 2. Sort by Language:

Spoiler:

Word          | Count  | ^ Language   | Misspelled
______________|________|______________|___________ 
the           | 1      | English (US) | No
their         | 1      | English (US) | No
Theos         | 1      | English (US) | Yes
thesis        | 1      | English (US) | No
the           | 1      | German       | Yes

Easily split all English or German words.

Method 2B. Sort Language again:

Spoiler:

Word          | Count  | v Language   | Misspelled
______________|________|______________|___________ 
the           | 1      | German       | Yes
the           | 1      | English (US) | No
their         | 1      | English (US) | No
Theos         | 1      | English (US) | Yes
thesis        | 1      | English (US) | No

(Maybe a search for "de: the" will only display the German one. But when you can sort by Language... you're one/two clicks away from achieving similar results.)

Method 3. Uncheck the "Show All Words" box:

Spoiler:

Word          | Count  | Language     | Misspelled
______________|________|______________|___________ 
the           | 1      | German       | Yes
Theos         | 1      | English (US) | Yes

See all misspelled words. Can Ignore or Add to Dictionary.

Originally Posted by KevinH

- in other words ... en: baden (a spelling mistake) is considered to be different from de: baden (also a spelling mistake in German as it should be captialized) and you can find and update each one separately.

Will that information be in the "Add To Dictionary" dropdown?

If you pick:

en: baden

"Add to Dictionary" = Default or English.

If you pick:

de: baden

"Add to Dictionary" = Default or German.

* * *

What about Edit > Preferences > Spellcheck Dictionaries?

Will this get a "Language" column as well?

Or some way to add words on a per language basis? (Selecting a language in "Dictionary" dropdown will update the User Dictionary Word List?)

(I personally don't add words to my user dictionaries, so maybe someone else might have more insights here.)