Dictionary should be controlled by the OS when available/possible by default

[WhiteNoise]

We have already a feature request for language dictionary and another one for custom dictionaries. Let’s use those for the discussion.

Spellcheck for Language X

This post is to consolidate all the various requests to add support for spellcheck in language other than English. At the moment, we can’t leverage chrome/electron built-in spell check. @Licat made a pull request to electron to add support for interfacing the editor we use and the chrome’s spellchecker. When that goes through, we will have spellcheck in all languages.

Adding Custom Dictionaries to Spellcheck

I would like to request the addition of custom dictionaries to the spellchecker. This is different from adding words to the user dictionary. Certain fields, like biology, have massive dictionaries with the number of unique words approaching several tens of thousands. These fields are also (understandably) very pedantic about words and their spellings. I think it would be useful to have an option in the spellchecker options to add pre-made dictionaries to the spelling list. There are many “.dic”…