Multiple Languages Support

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Use case or problem

I am an English speaker learning Mandarin and currently all the words in my notes on Mandarin are red underlined because they’re not English words (believe it or not).

Proposed solution

Allow a user to select multiple languages.

Current workaround

There are none really, I suppose the only workaround would be to change the language when I go to study Mandarin, but then all the English words in that document would be red underlined so its either or.

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One solution would be for “Spell checker” to respect “language” or “languages” field specified in YAML-front-matter of each note.

I use the following workaround: Obsidian → Settings → Editor → Spell check → OFF

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+1

I keep it turned off as well, have a lot of notes in all kinds of live and dead languages… Not crucial to have them spellchecked, but would be nice.

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Ah thank you for the workaround!

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this has been implemented in the new editor