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Old 08-25-2015, 04:01 AM   #1
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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.
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Old 08-25-2015, 04:38 AM   #2
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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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Old 08-25-2015, 06:16 AM   #3
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Hi & Thanks for the help.

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The metadata starts with the books (Language) in the Library (it normally comes from the book upon adding).
BTW, look in the content.opf
I don't have a content .opf file anywhere in my library, but I do have a metadata.opf one in each folder. I assume that's the relevant one

The one for this book has only one entry with the word "language" included.

<dc:language>en</dc:language>

So this doesn't appear to be forcing the spell checker towards English (GB).

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Old 08-25-2015, 06:46 AM   #4
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<dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
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Old 08-25-2015, 07:10 AM   #5
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@ColMac - if your books are either US spelling or UK spelling (i.e. not mixed within a book) try switch dictionaries Edit->Preferences->Editor Settings->Manage Dictionaries.

If you have books with both or you want a swiss-army-knife to cover all books then there are some EN dictionaries at Apache that carry both spelling variants (e.g. 'spelt' and 'spelled', but only 'dispelled' and 'bespelled' ). They're rather big so they may have an adverse effect on performance when they're used.

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Old 08-26-2015, 03:03 AM   #6
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Change it to

<dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
Did as suggested, it made no difference.

I also spotted that there is a content.opf file listed in contents when in Edit book mode, but changing that also made no difference
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Old 08-26-2015, 03:06 AM   #7
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@ColMac - if your books are either US spelling or UK spelling (i.e. not mixed within a book) try switch dictionaries Edit->Preferences->Editor Settings->Manage Dictionaries.
Yes I do have both types thanks, and it was "switch dictionaries" that brought me to this problem.
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Old 08-26-2015, 08:50 PM   #8
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Did as suggested, it made no difference.

I also spotted that there is a content.opf file listed in contents when in Edit book mode, but changing that also made no difference
The language can be set in other places as well. One of the sources of books I have sets the language at the top of each html file. But, it can be set on a tag or in the class used.
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Old 08-26-2015, 10:27 PM   #9
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Did as suggested, it made no difference.
The metadata.opf in the library folders is a database backup for your books, it does not ever affect anything (except in the singular case of a calibre library Database Restore).
You want the content.opf in the ebook file, as viewed in the Editor.

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I also spotted that there is a content.opf file listed in contents when in Edit book mode, but changing that also made no difference
It should, unless the language is overridden later on, inside the individual html files.

The "lang" attribute can appear anywhere at all in the (x)html. See the w3schools guide to html language.
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Old 08-27-2015, 02:18 AM   #10
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Thanks again to all for their input.

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The metadata.opf in the library folders is a database backup for your books, it does not ever affect anything (except in the singular case of a calibre library Database Restore).
You want the content.opf in the ebook file, as viewed in the Editor.
I had not appreciated the significance (or lack of) of the metadata.opf file. Thanks for explaining that.

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The "lang" attribute can appear anywhere at all in the (x)html. [/URL].
Going back to the first post, I had explained that

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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.
I've just checked this again. To confirm, there are no lang attributes in the content.opf file. There is one on the title page, and as advised, I changed it from "en" to "en-US". There are none in any other xhtml files.

Yet my spell checker (with US selected as preferred variant) lists all the words as English (GB).

Just in case, there is an error in that code, the whole line from the Titlepage.xhtml file is as follows

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us">
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Just spotted that I had used lower case for "us". have changed it now to "US" and still no difference.
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@ColMac -- the books that you got from US sources -- if they are not copyrighted, is there a link to let someone else look at them?
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Just spotted that I had used lower case for "us". have changed it now to "US" and still no difference.
This thread has been giving me a sense of deja vu. Searching back found https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=244207 which covers a lot this. I posted an order of language selection towards the end. From that, you should be able to work out where to define the language to get it correct.
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