When spell checking, exclude non-English words

paperback · 02-05-2022, 07:01 AM

I recently edited an ebook which had a lot of French language quotations in them. The French words appear as misspelt in the "Check spelling" window but, of course, this is misleading: they are simply not recognised as English words.

Is it possible to filter these words from the list using some kind of French language add-on, leaving only possible English misspellings?

kovidgoyal · 02-05-2022, 07:42 AM

mark the french language sections as french and they will be auto matically ignored unless you install a french language dictionary, in which case they will be checked using that ditionary.

02-05-2022, 07:01 AM	#1
paperback Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2022 Device: None	When spell checking, exclude non-English words I recently edited an ebook which had a lot of French language quotations in them. The French words appear as misspelt in the "Check spelling" window but, of course, this is misleading: they are simply not recognised as English words. Is it possible to filter these words from the list using some kind of French language add-on, leaving only possible English misspellings?

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02-05-2022, 07:42 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,650 Karma: 28549046 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	mark the french language sections as french and they will be auto matically ignored unless you install a french language dictionary, in which case they will be checked using that ditionary.

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