How do I change my spellcheck to English?

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What I’m trying to do

Last year, I briefly lived in Germany and changed my laptop’s language to German. However I never used Obsidian during that time. My Obsidian’s language is in English yet the spellcheck is German and I can’t figure out how to change it to English. Can anyone help?

[DiCaver]

Options > Editor > Spellcheck languages …

Cheers, Marko

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It says that it’s in English, sorry I forgot to mention that, no need to be rude I’m just asking for some help…

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[DiCaver]

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no need to be rude

I am unsure what I’ve done to be rude to you, but I hope you find a solution.

Cheers, Marko

[Jopp]

what computer are you using, Mac, Win, Linux ? Check following:

• change your laptops main language
• change your keyboard layout language.

The easy way to change your spellchecker language is to open Obsidians Settings>editor>spellcheck language, then add yet another language, finally delete German pressing on the X.

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I wonder if it’s related to this open Electron bug:

No spellcheck suggestion for one language when using multiple languages

Steps to reproduce Create a new vault, activate both ‘English’ and ‘German’ in the editor settings as spellcheck languages. Create a file and insert this text: Deis ist ain Baispiel führ einen Sats. Thiss is an äxampel fohr a säntence. Expected result I’d expect to see spellckeck suggestions for the misspelled words in both languages. Actual result Only suggestions in the first language are shown (in this case English). [image] Environment SYSTEM INFO: Obsidian version: v1.3.3 Inst…

Jelmerro replied in the up-stream Electron bug:

It seems to not be so much related to multiple languages, as that does work if you only add languages without a dash in them, for example nl, de works on the Windows machine here and suggests words in both languages, while en-GB, en-US doesn’t suggest anything.

So I guess your language is “en-gb” with a dash. So that might explain the issue. (I didn’t read the entire thread.)

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Lastly, I recommend checking out the FAQ that Discourse published. It’s easy to imagine tone, so it’s always good to try to reply to content, not tone: FAQ - Discourse Meta

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Win.

• English
• My main keyboard layout is English (South Africa) however I use US-DVORAK to type
  German isn’t listed as the spellcheck language. I just turned spellcheck off for now, but it’s very strange

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The en-gb thing sounds the most likely. I think this stuff is all a bit beyond me so I’ll probably just go on without spellcheck!