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Language detection (for spellcheck)

#2036

Mail.app seems to be able to tell whether I'm writing an email in English or in German and switches to the appropriate spellcheck dictionary. MailMate always thinks I'm writing in English. Is there a trick to make MailMate auto-detect what language I'm writing in?

Reported by Kai von Fintel · June 28th, 2018 @ 04:37 PM

State: resolved
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

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  1. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to resolved

    Check your settings in “View ▸ Spelling and Grammar ▸ Show ...”. It should have an “automatic” setting. There's also a global default in the System Preferences.

    (This is a system feature and not really a MailMate feature.)

    Let me know if this does not help.

    July 1st, 2018 @ 07:23 AM

  2. Kai von Fintel
    Kai von Fintel

    Thanks, Benny. This solved it. Neither the MailMate setting (which is actually "Edit ▸ Spelling and Grammar ▸ Show ...") nor the System Preference setting ("Keyboard ▸ Text ▸ Spelling:") was set to Automatic by Language, which puzzles me since Mail.app did detect when I wrote in German. Anyway, I appreciate the help.

    July 1st, 2018 @ 11:37 AM

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