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Denc nañu waxtaan wii. Yónneel yeneen laaj soo soxlaa ndimbal.

How to use multiple languages at the same time for spell checking?

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zimon
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I use two different languages all the time and words are mostly so different (English and Finnish) that I could have spell checking on for both languages at the same time. Now it seem to allow to select only one language at the time and I have to switch back and fort zillion of times per day.

I use two different languages all the time and words are mostly so different (English and Finnish) that I could have spell checking on for both languages at the same time. Now it seem to allow to select only one language at the time and I have to switch back and fort zillion of times per day.

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TonyE
TonyE
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You can only select one dictionary at a time. The Dictionary Switcher add-on may be of use to you.

zimon
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Thanks for the quick answer.

The Dictionary Switcher doesn't seem to work with Finnish language, it doesn't detect it at all to be one of the choices although in the Firefox context menu Languages -> Finnish/Finland is shown.

Also, if it would work, I would need to get rid of multiple EN_* langauges. I just need EN_UK or EN_US, not all 22 different EN_*.

One option would be to create a custom dictionary, which would have words from both languages. The next task is then to find out how to make this kind of custom ENFI-dictionary, which would have words from both English and Finnish languages.

Finnish may be a some kind of special case for spell checking anyway, because the support is in its separate plugin: http://voikko.sourceforge.net/