Created attachment 126171 [details] demonstration of the problem My system's locale is fr_CA.UTF8 (French Canadian). In Writer, if I select text before going into "Tools > Language > For entire text", there will be no menu entry for "English (U.S.A.)", only French (Canada) and French (France). However, if I don't select anything, "English (U.S.A.)" magically appears in the available choices. See the attached screencast with the latest LibreOffice.
Not reproduced with Finnish or English text. Is this only in the .docx seen in the video or with a fresh document as well? 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5 Build ID: 5.1.4.2 Arch Linux build-1 CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Linux 4.6; UI Render: default; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8)
Yes, this happens with a fresh document too. The thing is that LibreOffice tries to be "smart" and to autodetect the language of the contents the user has selected, which is precisely what I don't want.
Created attachment 126248 [details] demonstration of the problem with a fresh document In this video with a "fresh" document you see the opposite problem: I type random gibberish and LibreOffice interprets that as "Breton" (from Brittany), changing the menu options depending on that detection. It could have been any language, and normal texts can have words from multiple languages at once, throwing off the autodetection anyway. I think it would be simpler if it didn't change the results based on what it thinks the language is, and rather prompts the user to pick the language directly with a dedicated dialog, as suggested in bug #100856
Hello Jean-Francois, *, I can confirm your bug with OS: Debian Testing AMD64 LO: Version: 5.1.4.2 Build-ID: 1:5.1.4~rc2-2 CPU-Threads: 4; BS-Version: Linux 4.5; UI-Render: GL; Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8) (Debian's own version) as well as with LO: Version: 5.2.0.2 Build-ID: a7567a46e5d2953c320b13eb88a3981c4f9bd1e0 CPU-Threads: 4; BS-Version: Linux 4.5; UI-Render: Standard; Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8) (parallel installed, following the instructions from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Linux) ... :( Steps to reproduce: 1. enter blindtext in your language ("bt"+<F3> for German) 2. enter one or two lines in English (e.g. "If there are too many errors in a text, the author should be tarred and feathered." and/or "Live is a b* and then you die." 3. Enter a new line with a different language (say "Ik ben blij met uw kennis te maken" in hopefully correct Dutch ... ;) ). 4. Press <Ctrl>+<A> to mark the whole text. 5. Go to "Tools - Languages - For entire text" Interestingly, both versions show "German (Germany)" and Dutch (Netherlands), but not English as possible languages ... :( @ll: if you want to test it with a German sentence, you can maybe use something like "Max Mustermann wohnt in der Musterstraße 1 in Musterstadt." or "Herzlich Willkommen in unserer Stadt." or so ... ;) As I can confirm it, I will change the status to "New" HTH Thomas.
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Similar to #tdf 134732, which has a simpler test case. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 134732 ***