Franz: Spellcheck no longer working in other languages

[HendrikPetertje]

Expected Behavior

When writing a full sentence in a language other than english, spellcheck should kick in and recognize the written language, then provide spell suggestions for that language. (this worked in all prior versions of Franz and was the main reason me and many in our office used Franz for instead of slack)

Current Behavior

When writing a full line, franz sticks to English spellcheck and does not switch. apart from engilsh spelling suggestions it suggests a list of gibberish words that don't really make sense.

Screenshots (if appropriate):

Possible Solution

Use the standard system libraries or the appropriate webkit library for spellcheck.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Write non-english sentence, Swedish example: "Hej där hur läget?"
2. All words get red marking
3. Right click with cursor over word
4. See list of english suggestions and random gibberish

Context

This (for me) is the unique selling point for Franz. Slack has had horrible spell check so far that only supports American English. As someone that switches between Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch and English, Spelling and grammar check is an awesome thing to have. Franz now seems moving into the same direction as slack.

Spellcheck worked like it does in Google Chrome in all older versions of Franz which was perfect

Your Environment

• Franz Version used: 5.0.0.beta.10
• Operating System and version: Mac OSX Sierra 10.12.6

[mfeltscher]

I encountered the exact same thing when switching to version 5. This used to work like a charm in previous versions.

[AGonLen]

In my case (Beta 13), there's no spell check at all, not even in the language Franz is, nor English, nothing. No SpellCheck. Do I need to do anything to activate the Spell Check? And to select the multiple languages to check?
Thanks.

[kecinzer]

I have same problem here. I was on beta 13 and sticks with beta 14. Spellcheck only work in english.

[adlk]

@AGonLen, @kecinzer Please always add your OS to your comment. Otherwise it's impossible for me to test the issues.

Also, what is the language you want to write?

[AGonLen]

Sure!!!
When I wrote the message:
Franz Version used when wrote message: 5.0.0.beta.13
Operating System and version: Windows 10 Pro Fall Creators Update

Now:
Franz Version used now: 5.0.0.beta.14
And spell checker is working in my language (Spanish), and although I have Franz setup with English language, it does not correct.
Is it possible to select the "active" languages?
Can the same message/text have multiple languages?
Does it detect and change automatically from one language to another?

[adlk]

Right now the spellchecker selects the system language, not the Franz language. While Franz has support for a few languages. People might want to write in their native language even though Franz might not be available in that language.

I have started a test to do manual and automatic language selection. Unfortunately this is working so incredibly unreliable that I had to disable it for beta 14.

[AGonLen]

That explains, and it's quite some progress, many thanks BTW!!!! At least it will correct when I speak in my language, but would be good to be able to select 2-3 languages for people that might speak different languages on their chats/conversations.
The manual selection or languages (or even automatic if it could be done, similar to what Chrome does) would be awesome!!! :)

[AGonLen]

Also, would be good and great to create your know dictionary and add words that you use (specially names and things like that...)

[kecinzer]

I'm sorry. I'm on macOS 10.12.6 and Franz 5.0.0-beta.14. I'm using czech language. And even if I set czech language as system default for spell check, Franz keep checking in English.

[AGonLen]

Now the spellcheck menu is not showing when right clicking...
Sometimes it happened, but after a Franz close and restart was working, but now not working at all. For a fraction of a second I see the menu but then it's gone.

Franz Version used: 5.0.0.beta.14
Operating System and version: Windows 10 Pro Fall Creators Update

[gionaufal]

Same here.
Ubuntu 16.04
Version: 5.0.0-beta.14
Release: 1.7.9 / linux / x64

Brazilian Portuguese.

EDIT: I think the app needed some time to understand the language. It's now working fine in Brazilian Portuguese.

[libora]

I would like to see the manual selection of a language for spellcheck independent on the Franz UI language.

[morcegon]

Same Here
Ubuntu 18.04
Version 5.0.0-beta.18
Release: 1.8.4 / linux / x64

Brazilian Portuguese

[nlenkowski]

MacOS 10.13.6
Franz 5.0.0-beta.18.903

+1 for multi-language spellcheck. I live in Spain, but write daily in both English and Spanish. My system language and Franz language are set to English.

Very few Electron apps support multi-language spellcheck, I'm assuming it's difficult to implement. A few do however. Wavebox provides spellcheck for up to two languages. Not perfect, but better than being limited to just one.

Here's how they handle spellcheck configuration:

And here it is in use:

Glad to see Franz back in action! 👍

[pinheirof]

Any news about this "bug"?

I really enjoy Franz, and using only as a Gmail "client"; however, the very fact that it does not support any other language than English is really annoying. I speak Portuguese and most of my emails are in my native language.. I tried to change gmail language.. Franz language...gmail "check spelling".... and nothing appears to work...the worst is the red underline.... That's a shame because I would really like to keep using the app..

Btw,

Ubuntu 18.04
Version 5.0.0-beta.18

[bastien-wink]

@pinheirof You can set your Ubuntu main language to Portuguese so you don't have your native language underlined.

In my case, I use 50/50 two different languages, so Franz is anoying to use, underlining 50% of my writings.
We need to have this "disable spellcheck" working, it sound like an easy thing to fix.

Also Ubuntu 18.04
Version 5.0.0-beta.18

[iromeo]

MacOS 10.14, Slack Desktop app 3.3.2: Spell checker works only for English, doesn't work for Russian language, even if I manually select it.

[ruscur]

It'd be great to be able to add languages like browsers can, or to use something native on certain platforms so you could extend it that way. My issue isn't as bad as users of other languages, I just want en_AU, but it is annoying.