Keeping a dictionary set?

[Tharthan]

(I don't know if this ought to go here or under some other board, but I'm putting it here because it seems to make the most sense)

This is a much more simple question than my usual ones:

How does one keep a dictionary set within the browser (for spell-checking)?

In my case, the spelling that I use is closer to Commonwealth English (the English of the Commonwealth of Nations) spelling than to the Websterian-derived spelling currently standard in my country, for a number of reasons (some historical to my area and family, others personal).

So I have the British English dictionary installed in my browser (despite not speaking British English, and thus not using most British English-specific words, I would think) for purposes of the function that it plays in spell-checking.

Nevertheless, the spell-checker often reverts to prescribing Websterisms and the like irrespective of how many times that I set it to the other dictionary.

How do I change this permanently? It's quite irksome to have a word that I am not misspelling nevertheless have a red squiggly line under it for no good reason over and over and over again.

[Falna]

I use Dictionary Switcher (from the Classic Add-ons Archive) to toggle between dictionaries. In addition to manual toggling, it will try to detect the language of each website and switch to the corresponding dictionary and, if you manually change it, it will remember for your next visit.

[yami_]

Pale Moon has a preference called spellchecker.dictionary.override that can be used to force a specific dictionary.

[Konrad]

A word might be simply missing in the dictionary of the spellchecker that you use. You can add such a word to your spellchecker; the word will be saved in the file called persdict.dat.
What spellchecker do you use? If I am not mistaken, the best tool for British English is maintained by Marco Pinto. You can install the legacy version. Both WebExtension and Legacy Extension employ one and the same dictionary.

[Tharthan]

Pale Moon has a preference called spellchecker.dictionary.override that can be used to force a specific dictionary.

How do I modify this the right way?

A word might be simply missing in the dictionary of the spellchecker that you use. You can add such a word to your spellchecker; the word will be saved in the file called persdict.dat.

I can assure you that this is not the case. Whenever I spell a word normally that has different spellings depending on whether one uses a spelling system that rejects or supports the Websterian spelling changes, it automatically marks the unaltered spelling as incorrect, and suggests the Websterian spelling instead.

[yami_]

How do I modify this the right way?

You need to set this preference to [ISO 639-1 alpha-2 language code]-[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code]. For example in this notation US English in called en-US and British English is called en-GB.

[Tharthan]

How do I modify this the right way?

You need to set this preference to [ISO 639-1 alpha-2 language code]-[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code]. For example in this notation US English in called en-US and British English is called en-GB.

So "[ISO 639-1 alpha-2 en]-[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 GB]" (do I keep the square brackets, by the way?) or "[en-GB]"?

[yami_]

No. Just "en-GB". ISO 639-1 alpha-2 is a standard for two char language codes and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 is a standard for two char country codes. I guess that something like [insert ISO 639-1 alpha-2 code here]-[insert ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code here] would be more obvious.

[Tharthan]

No. Just "en-GB". ISO 639-1 alpha-2 is a standard for two char language codes and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 is a standard for two char country codes. I guess that something like [insert ISO 639-1 alpha-2 code here]-[insert ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code here] would be more obvious.

Thanks. I've set it to "en-GB".

If it doesn't work, I'll respond back within a day. If not, this thread can be closed.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

if that doesn't work then remove your dicts and try the ones temporarily hosted at repository.binaryoutcast.com those have their language codes normalized thanks to kn-yami. WHO SHOULD BE ON IRC BUT ISN'T anyway.. ye.

[yami_]

Off-topic:

WHO SHOULD BE ON IRC BUT ISN'T

Yeah...

[Tharthan]

WHO SHOULD BE ON IRC BUT ISN'T

Off-topic:
I miss IRC being everywhere. Now it's mostly just tech-related sites. It's such a useful means of (essentially) instant textual communication.

On the other hand, I don't miss "the information superhighway". That was extremely silly, in hindsight. However, to be fair, since such a new and amazing technology was being presented to a public that was quite unfamiliar with it, it makes sense why such silly "hype"-sounding words were used. I suppose there is a slight similarity to the "There's an App For That" (*cringes*) commercials back when the "smart device" first reared its ugly head into view (or, more accurately, became popular [since the devices had been around for a few years already before that]).

/me frowns.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Off-topic:
Why don't you join me on freenode #binaryoutcast.. There is also a #palemoon but I am not always there these days.

[Tharthan]

Off-topic:
Why don't you join me on freenode #binaryoutcast.. There is also a #palemoon but I am not always there these days.

Off-topic:
I'll certainly consider it, Sheriff. :)

[Fedor2]

Spellchecks dictionaries are located in the dictionaries browser folder. Look there and certainly you find en-US.aff en-US.dic, you can put there any other dictionaries by two similar files. spellchecker.dictionary.override is to set according the file name.

If you told to set ISO 639-1 alpha-2 language code then that filename must have match this, but this is not necessary. For eхample i use two language dictionary: filename russian-english such i set in the spellchecker.dictionary.override.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Do not listen to him. Never alter files in the application directory of Pale Moon. Not only will they be wiped out by updates but unless you know what you are doing.. And you don't. It can cause many many issues such as corruption and loss of data.

[Fedor2]

wiped out by updates

why?

many many issues such as corruption and loss of data.

If this is really true i shall stop to do the practice. Please give me anyone example of the issue which cause was dictionary files put in the application folder?

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Uhhhhhhhhhh No.

[Moonchild]

DO. NOT. ALTER. ADD. OR. REMOVE. ANYTHING. IN. THE. APPLICATION. FOLDER.

Installing dictionaries is done by using the normal add-on installation method (XPI) which places them in the correct location (your profile).

[Tharthan]

No worries.

Altering spellchecker.dictionary.override worked perfectly fine, and it hasn't changed back since I modified it.

I think that the problem is solved, and this thread can be closed.