Description: It is not clear to me what happens when one selects a language for which the module has not been loaded. (But it has been in the OS.) English is my main language, but I do need Afrikaans often, and sometimes German. One can change the language of a paragraph (or selection using the bottom border option), but no warning is given. Steps to Reproduce: 1.select text 2.change language 3. Actual Results: nothing Expected Results: there should be a warning that the language model has not been loaded. Ideally, should default to OS language options (why is it necessary to maintain multiple dictionaries? Unnecessary redundancy.) Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: [Information automatically included from LibreOffice] Locale: en-GB Module: TextDocument [Information guessed from browser] OS: Linux (All) OS is 64bit: yes
I disagree that should be such a warning. It is OK to mark parts of text as having some specific languages, even if their dictionaries aren't present; having warnings would be too intrusive. Besides spell checking, the reasons could be: disabling spell checking; defining hyphenation rules; using respective locale-specific number (date) formats...
I'd recommend closing this as NOTABUG. (It's asking a question / info.) (In reply to Elmar from comment #0) > Description: > It is not clear to me what happens when one selects a language for which the > module has not been loaded. (But it has been in the OS.) English is my main > language, but I do need Afrikaans often, and sometimes German. In LibreOffice: - Spellchecking - Hyphenation happen depending on your "Optional Components" installed. If a language—like German or Afrikaans—is not installed, your "foreign words": - WILL NOT get red squigglies or proper hyphenation. > One can change the language of a paragraph (or selection using the bottom > border option), but no warning is given. Like Mike Kaganski said, marking a paragraph's language is used for many things. For example, you can have a French poem in the middle of your English book. Marking the French properly, as "French" paragraphs, allows correct: - Spellchecking --- Red squigglies + Right-Click suggestions! - Hyphenation --- Requires Hyphenation Dictionaries. - Translation - Text-to-Speech And it is very important for Accessibility. It would also allow other tools/formats to work correctly too. Like if you exported it to PDF or EPUB: - An EPUB Reader or PDF Reader can read those sections of text as French. - If you press/held on a word, a French->English dictionary could pop up. - - - Side Note: In LO 7.5 and above: - Machine Translation - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.5#Machine_translation is now a possibility. You're able to highlight the French poem, then: - Tools > Translate LibreOffice can now replace that French->English text for you. For more info, see my post here: - https://reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/10rz652/machine_translation_with_libre_office/j6zfadz/ (Right now, 7.5, it's an experimental feature.) - - - Side Note #2: For more possibilities/use-cases, see my post here: - 2022: "<i>, <em> or <span> for italics?" - https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4241302#post4241302 It is mostly talking proper HTML markup, but the same concepts apply. :)