Spell Casting Mac OS

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A SIMPLE STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

As you may know—all too well—Apple’s Mac OS X doesn’t offer native support for Romanian spell checking. Quite an embarrassment.

However, it is possible to install a Romanian spell-check dictionary (with diacritics and all)—in three fairly easy steps—available to all applications using system spell-checking services, like Mail, Pages, Keynote, Safari, iChat etc.1

Here is how to add system-wide Romanian spell-check dictionary to Mac OS X—a simple step-by-step guide.

Step 1. Install Aspell and cocoAspell

Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker, cocoAspell is a Mac OS X system services interface for Aspell.

Action: Go to cocoAspell homepage and download the installer—currently at version 2.1. The package will install Aspell and a Spelling preference panel to control cocoAspell.

Outcome: If all goes well a Spelling preference panel will appear in System Preferences.

Step 2. Install the Romanian dictionary

We have the engine, now we need a compatible Romanian spell-check dictionary—say hello to Aspell Romanian Dictionary Package.

Action: Open the Official Aspell Dictionaries FTP directory, scroll to “Română” and get aspell5-ro-3.3-2.tar.bz2. Expand it an move the resulting aspell5-ro-3.3-2 folder to ~/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/.

If this sounds frightening, let me do it for you—just open a Terminal window and paste the following instructions one at a time:

Outcome: Opening the System Preferences → Spelling panel will require Aspell to compile the dictionary. You should get the following message:

And then:

Consequently, Romanian should appear in the Spelling panel’s dictionaries list—and you need to enable it:

Step 3. Use the Romanian spell checker in applications

In order to use the newly installed dictionary, you need to select it in your spelling preferences.

Action: In you application of choice select from the menu bar: Edit → Spelling → Show Spelling and Grammar:

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In Pages, select from the menu bar: View → Show inspector → Text → Language → Română:

Outcome: After selecting the Romanian dictionary, the spelling engine should switch to Romanian.

Final notes

  • If this works for you, donate to Anton Leuski via the PayPall Donate button oncocoAspell page2;
  • Please note that this tutorial is provided ‘as is’, and I’m not responsible should any data loss occur—a backup is always a good idea. If in doubt, consult maintainer’s installation instructions, f.a.q. and troubleshooting pages;
  • Kudos to the Romanian team3.

1 The Romanian spell-check dictionary will not be available to applications using their own spell checking engines, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Illustrator or InDesign etc.

2 I paid $10 via PayPall Donate.

3 Lucian Constantin (rospell), Alexandru Szasz (Mozilla and OpenOffice.org Romanian Translation Team), Ionut Paduraru (http://www.archeus.ro), Adrian Stoica (OpenOffice.org Romanian Translation Team), Nicu Buculei (OpenOffice.org Romanian Translation Team), Catalin Francu (DEX Online Team, http://dexonline.ro), Ionel Mugurel Ciobica (previous aspell releases) and Mihai Budiu (ispell dictionary).

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macOS has a system-wide spell-check feature. Fortunately, for reader JGC, this feature can be adjusted by the user, especially when a problem like his occurs.

Recently, the spell-check in Facebook is defaulting to French corrections. It first was funny, but it now is a serious consumption of time to constantly check for these auto-corrections. Any ideas how to remedy?

Since the spell-check in macOS is system-wide, you should be seeing this in more than one application if it’s happening in Facebook via a web browser.

There is a language setting for your Facebook account, but it doesn’t seem to interact with spell-check, which is a system function. Further, if you change your Facebook language, it changes its interface to use that language, which would be obvious to you.

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You should look in two places to see if macOS preferences changed:

  • In Safari or any app that lets you type, click in a field or a page to get a cursor and then select Edit > Spelling & Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar. This floating palette may be set to Automatic by Language. Set it to U.S. English and see if that solves the problem.
  • In the Language & Region system preference pane, English/English (U.S.) should appear at the top of Preferred Languages. Drag it to the top of the list if not. You can remove any other languages that you don’t speak or want to appear.

Failing that, you can disable automatic spellchecking within Safari (or any app). In an app, choose Edit > Spelling & Grammar > Check Spelling While Typing and Correct Spelling Automatically one after the other to remove their checkmarks.

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