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Old 10-11-2018, 03:12 AM   #1
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Dictionary questions

I have the Calibre 3.3.2 Editor set to use United Kingdom as the 'preferred variant for the English language'.

Q1. Why do words like 'centre' show as misspelled? (i.e. wavy red underline) Is there another setting other than in Edit > Preferences > Editor settings > Manage spelling dictionaries?

Q2. Is is possible to get rid of some of the suggested alternatives (like 'cent re' and/or 'cent-re')?

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Old 10-11-2018, 05:06 AM   #2
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@RickC998 - try this

Have a look at the language in the opf file, if it's 'en-us' I think it checks against US spellings, similarly 'en-uk' would check against UK spellings etc.

Best thing is to set it to 'en' in the OPF, then the selected dictionary variant should determine which spelling variants (US, UK, Australian etc) are used to check against.

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Have a look at the language in the opf file, if it's 'en-us' I think it checks against US spellings, similarly 'en-uk' would check against UK spellings etc.
One minor correction: en-GB is British. There is no en-UK.
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One minor correction: en-GB is British. There is no en-UK.
if the nationalists (Scottish, Irish and English) get their way there will be no (anything) UK (anything).

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Old 10-14-2018, 04:09 AM   #5
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Have a look at the language in the opf file, if it's 'en-us' I think it checks against US spellings, similarly 'en-uk' would check against UK spellings etc.

Best thing is to set it to 'en' in the OPF, then the selected dictionary variant should determine which spelling variants (US, UK, Australian etc) are used to check against.
Many thanks for your reply. It was set to just 'en' in the OPF file. I changed it to 'en-uk', saved the change, closed and re-opened the ebook but 'centre' still showed as a spelling error. I checked the OPF file and the setting had been changed from 'en-uk' back to 'en' again.

I ran out of time to do any more testing so next time I see the same situation occur I'll try 'en-GB' instead.
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Many thanks for your reply. It was set to just 'en' in the OPF file. I changed it to 'en-uk', saved the change, closed and re-opened the ebook but 'centre' still showed as a spelling error. I checked the OPF file and the setting had been changed from 'en-uk' back to 'en' again.

I ran out of time to do any more testing so next time I see the same situation occur I'll try 'en-GB' instead.
Sorry for the bum steer on 'en-uk' instead of 'en-gb', blame Brexit.

But as I understand it: if the language setting in the opf is 'en' and the dictionary setting in Preferences is United Kingdom, then the spell check should be using the en-GB dictionary, as per the Dictionary selection dialogue in Editor->Preferences:

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You can change the dictionaries used for any specified language.

A language can have many country specific variants. Each of these variants can have one or more dictionaries assigned to it. The default variant for each language is shown in bold to the left.

You can change the default country variant as well as changing the dictionaries used for every variant.

When a book specifies its language as a plain language, without any country variant, the default variant you choose here will be used.
This is how it works for me, but I should add I do not use the English dictionary that's shipped with calibre.

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Old 10-14-2018, 08:49 AM   #7
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I encountered the same problem a few times. Installed default dictionary and .opf file settings were getting over-ruled in the spell check. The cause turned out to be meta tag settings in each html page, like so:

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">
Check to see if that is what is going on here.

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Old 10-14-2018, 07:11 PM   #8
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I encountered the same problem a few times. Installed default dictionary and .opf file settings were getting over-ruled in the spell check. The cause turned out to be meta tag settings in each html page [...]
This is a good idea to check too.

There's a handful of locations language can be set, going from "highest" to "lowest" level:

1. The overall book's language is set in the book's metadata.

Sigil has an easy way to look at this (Tools > Metadata Editor):

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Or, if you want to manually look inside of the content.opf file, you'll be looking for a line like this:

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<dc:language>en</dc:language>
2. Search for a lang and/or xml:lang in your HTML:

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<html [...] lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">
Like Brett Merkey said, it can be located anywhere within the HTML.

Side Note: Often, it can even be used at the paragraph- or word-level:

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<p lang="en">This is an example of an <span lang="es">español</span> word within an English text.</p>
3. If you go into Calibre Editor's Spellcheck, Tools > Check Spelling (Alt+F7), you can see a Language column:

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This will show you what Language a lot of your book is.
  • en = English
  • en-US = English (US) = US English
  • en-GB = English (GB) = British English

Like BetterRed said, if the book is set to just English, Calibre should spellcheck using whatever your overall Calibre is set to (either US or British dictionaries).
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Old 10-15-2018, 05:14 PM   #9
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Thank you all. It was indeed an issue with this meta tag, now corrected from "en-US" to "en-GB" on each page:

Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-GB">
Biggest problem was my lack of experience... so I've learned a lot.

Thank you all once again.
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Thank you all. It was indeed an issue with this meta tag, now corrected from "en-US" to "en-GB" on each page

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Biggest problem was my lack of experience... so I've learned a lot.


You may also want to add lang as well.

Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB">
Search: xml:lang="en-GB"
Replace: lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB"

Some tools/browsers/readers may support one or the other. So including both should make language work wherever.
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You may also want to add lang as well.

Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB">
Search: xml:lang="en-GB"
Replace: lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB"

Some tools/browsers/readers may support one or the other. So including both should make language work wherever.
Good tip... many thanks.
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