Issue with SpellCheck?

carmenchu · 06-28-2022, 02:43 PM

Hello! When trying to run a global Spell Check, i see the first image--background showing that there are spelling errors. If I call to Show All Words, the blank screen fills up--all words marked 'Mispelled? No'.
I am under Windows and just updated to Sigil 1.9.10: but it's some since I required the feature, so perhaps isn't a new issue...
Thanks!

BeckyEbook · 06-28-2022, 02:47 PM

Change language in metadata from "eng" to "en" or "en_US", "en_GB" or something OTHER than "eng".

carmenchu · 06-28-2022, 03:05 PM

Thanks! Language in metada was all right (English United States)--the issue was apparently with lang="eng" xml:lang="eng" in in the <html> tag--from original. Changing solves the problem--may as well delete it directly...

Tex2002ans · 06-28-2022, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

Change language in metadata from "eng" to "en" [...]

Yep, "eng" is an invalid language.

Instead, you'd use:

en = English

so:

✗ <html lang="eng" xml:lang="eng">
✓ <html lang="en" xml:lang="en">

A basic list of valid language tags are here:

W3Schools: "HTML Language Code Reference"

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

[...] or "en_US", "en_GB" or something OTHER than "eng".

Be careful though, because the underline isn't valid.

You need to use a HYPHEN between the language + country (and any other extra subtags):

en = English
en-US = English (United States)
en-GB = English (British)
en-GB-oxendict = English (British) + Oxford English Dictionary spelling

- - - - - -

Technical Side Note: If you want all valid lang codes, see:

IANA.org: "Language Subtag Registry"

If you want more info on how to use all the variants/tags, see:

W3.org: "Language tags in HTML and XML"

Technically, you can go 5 or 6+ layers deep... but in reality, most only handle levels 1+2.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by carmenchu

Thanks! Language in metada was all right (English United States)--the issue was apparently with lang="eng" xml:lang="eng" in in the <html> tag--from original.

Yes, you can imagine it like an upside-down pyramid:

Language of entire book
- In Sigil, Tools > Metadata Editor.
Language of each file (Optional)
- <html>
Language of each tag (Optional)
- , , , [...]

The lower levels are going to take priority.

So you can have an:

English book
- with a British article
  - with a Spanish paragraph
    - with a French sentence.
- and an American article

en = EPUB Metadata
- <html lang="en-GB">
 - 
 - 
- <html lang="en-US">

- - - - - -

Side Note: You can see some of that latest discussion in:

and many of my Greek topics over the years:

2019: "Help with a Greek word please"

Marking your HTML lang + xml:lang is very helpful, especially when dealing with languages where you may need to use a different font.

Of course, most people will just say:

"This is an English book"
or "This an an English book + each chapter is English"

and be done with it.

But when you begin getting your book read by Text-to-Speech, or running it through Auto-Translate, tagging languages properly becomes very important.

06-28-2022, 02:43 PM	#1
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BeckyEbook Guru Posts: 900 Karma: 3501166 Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Poland Device: Various	Change language in metadata from "eng" to "en" or "en_US", "en_GB" or something OTHER than "eng".

06-28-2022, 03:05 PM	#3
carmenchu Addict Posts: 201 Karma: 266070 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Spain Device: Win10,Win11,Ubuntu,PockbookLux44	Thanks! Language in metada was all right (English United States)--the issue was apparently with lang="eng" xml:lang="eng" in in the <html> tag--from original. Changing solves the problem--may as well delete it directly...