MacGYVER

Can anyone explain why in Pages when I select Canadian English under Spelling that it jumps back to English after one word? Why won't it stay on the Canadian English setting? Am I missing something? Do I need to select something in the Input Menu under System Preferences in the International settings?

MacGYVER

Ok, this looks to be like something isolated only in Pages and not system wide. :

If I go to MAIL and check out the Spelling option it stays as Canadian English when checking for spelling errors for entire document. But, in Pages it only stays on the word you're checking and then reverts back to whatever it was set to previously, in my case just plain English. How annoying is that? Why wouldn't Apple develop Spell checking the same right across the board in all their applications? Unless I am missing a setting or something within Pages to scan the entire document instead of just the word I am on?

rgray

If you run the Terminal command I am pretty sure it will return "en" on your machine (you selected English as the default language, no?).

If you want to force the global spelling server to use Canadian English as systemwide default, run the following Terminal command Which will return en_CA to the read command at top...

I like to use British English so I use Which will return en_GB to the read command at top...

Check your system by running the read command at the top of this post.

References: British English Spellcheck And Dictionary (macosxhints) and Apple - Support - Discussions - NSPreferredSpellServerLanguage

raymcfetridge

I've just bought myself a Mac and Microsoft Office (with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Entourage) for the Mac. I've looked under Tools and Preferences and find that English (UK) and English (US) are the closest options.

How do I set the language to Canadian English?

Thanks

Ray

iMouse

Can't answer that question, but if you can set it to British English it's the same thing.

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raymcfetridge

See: British, Canadian and American Spelling
for a partial listing of some of the differences.

Here are some examples:
aeroplane vs airplane
aluminium vs aluminum
amortise vs amortize
artefact vs artifact
capitalise vs capitalize
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Can anyone tell me how to set up Canadian English on my Mac and on the programs I use?

Thanks

Ray

chas_m

See RGray's post above for the way to do this if you originally selected English (ie US English) or English (UK) and now wish to change them.

I use English spellings (well not aeroplane, but most others) because I was schooled in England and it looks "right" to me that way even though I spent the vast majority of my life in the US.

I haven't set my machine for "Canadian English" because I'm not sure what precisely that would change. I'll have to look into that. Does it add "eh" to the end of every question or something?

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raymcfetridge

rgray's post states:
"run the terminal command-- defaults write-g NSPreferredSpellServerLanguage "en_CA""

How do I do that?

Thanks

Ray

Chealion

raymcfetridge: To run a terminal command;

Go to your Applications folder and find the Utilities folder.
Open the Utilities folder and look for Terminal.app
Open up Terminal.app and a text only interface will appear. While decidedly less friendly than a graphical user interface the command line gives quite a bit of power to those who are looking for it.

Simply type in the command (or copy and paste what is below) and then press return. Once done just go ahead and quit Terminal.app.

For the curious the break down of the command:
defaults - an application that allows you to change preferences in programs, the operating system, etc.
write - Tells defaults that we are going to be adding information
-g - This is what is called a flag - the hyphen than a g means this is to be applied globally (meaning to every program installed)
NSPreferredSpellServerLanguage - This is a setting for programs allowing them to see what language they should be using for spellchecking. It's something you'll never see unless you're diving down into setting preferences manually like we are doing now.
"en_CA" - The Canadian English dictionary.

Hope that clears the mud slightly.

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krs

What happened to be able to select the language preference in the OS X GUI?

Do you really have to muck about in terminal mode for something this simple? Then I might as well go back to DOS