This bug happens after changing document language or paragraph/text language. As soon as you start typing, it changes back to English. When you create a new line/paragraph, it changes back to desired language, but when you continue typing, it changes to English again.
This is really annoying and makes spell checking in other languages almost unusable. The only way to use spell checking is to select all the text after writing and set language, but even then it keeps changing to English if you continue.
Steps to reproduce:
Create new document
Change document language or paragraph/text language to something other than English
Start typing
(you’ll notice that language in status bar changes back to English)
Go to new line
(language changes to language that you set before)
Continue typing
(language changes to English again)
This happens only on desktop version (not in browser), but it happens on both offline and cloud documents. If you edit the same document from a browser and desktop editors at the same time, only desktop is constantly changing to English.
To avoid problems with spellchecker language change you can set “Spelling language detection” setting to Disabled in the Settings menu of the application.
Hope it solves your problem.
Hello @jesusdicen and @rlacroix
As far as I understand @Constantine provided a solution in the previous post.
If I misunderstood the situation, please clarify it.
Hi Alexandre
I came across the same issue today and started to report a bug (then I saw this thread).
I will disable the automatic selection for spell-checking… but… it is really the way it should work ?
To me there should be some kind of “pause” before the spell checking language is changed, in order to evaluate the used language once some word have been typed.
Just to show you what it looks like:
I am encountering the same issue. Disabling “Spelling language detection” solved it. I can provide a file if you still want one (@Alexandre).
As a side note: The issue only occurs on my Windows PC and not on my Linux PC. However, on Linux, I do not have the previously mentioned setting either.
It’d be nice to have a file to run tests with it. Additionally, I’d ask you to record a demo on how to reproduce the issue with your file and provide information about the version of Desktop Editors.
This solution is no longer available on OnlyOffice desktop 8.3.0.97 on Linux. The bug is still present: if I set any text or the whole document to English, OO switches back to German as soon as I continue typing.
Hello @Constantine
I have the same issue @user-of-file has.
The solution of disabling the automatic language detection is no longer viable on version 8.3.0.97 (flatpak) since this option is no longer present in the settings page.
The issue is the same as in previous versions as the language of the documents changes automatically to whatever keyboard language is set.
Unfortunately, I have a laptop with a US keyboard and to get advantage of all the key combinations I have to use the US Intl. layout.
This makes me unable to type into any other language without having the spellcheck automatically reverting to English as soon as I press a single key.
Here a video of what happens on my system: https://youtu.be/yUEbpRnxiUs
I hope this helps!
It is exactly the same problem that occurs on my computer with my international English keyboard, except that in my case only Office changes the Spanish language to English every time I write a new word. I still can’t find a solution, I hope the fix comes in the next update. Please let me know if there is a workaround.
Dear @CodeMaGNUs and @skinoku
We have released Desktop Editors v.8.3.1 a few days ago. Could you please update the app and double-check the issue? Please let us know the result.
Dear @Alexandre
Sadly I cannot update.
My distro is not finding the new release via Flatpak:
Name Description Application ID Version Branch Remotes
ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors Office productivity suite org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors 8.3.0 stable flathub
