Spell checking language is lost when modifying an existing text in presentation

Desktop editors
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Hello

New with 8.3 it seems:
Peek 08-02-2025 18-06

A text area with text set to English is modify.
After modification, no language is specified.

An example file :
for tests.pptx (62.2 KB)

If confirmed, it’s a big source of lost of productivity.

Thanks

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Hello @arcqus,
Please clarify on which OS do you reproduce the issue?

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Hi @DmitriiV
I’m now running linux mint with OO 8.3.

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Alright, thank you for clarification. We are analyzing the issue

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I’m getting the same error in OnlyOffice Writer. As soon as I start typing, the language settings for it disappear. Spell checking only works if I highlight the text and manually set the correct language.
I am using Linux Debian 12 and OnlyOffice version 8.3.0.97 installed via extrepo.

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Hello, we confirm that this behavior is related to the bug, we will post on this thread as soon as the version with the fix is released

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Also getting the same issue after updating to OO 8.3.0. It seems to switch the spell checking language to my keyboard layout/language (configured using KDE Settings, not localectl).

OS: Arch Linux 6.13.2
DE: KDE 6
OO Version: 8.3.0.97 (Flatpak)

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Yes, the issue is still relevant for the new version, please wait for the further info, we will post here as soon as there is news

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Just chiming in, I’m also getting this issue in writer and recently posted a video recording of this happening in the github issue #273 link to my comment Spelling check language reset when typing · Issue #273 · ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors · GitHub
I’m running
Onlyoffice: version 8.3.1.25 (deb)
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.17-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

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Thank you for sharing. Currently, the default keyboard layout language is used

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Well mine is Swedish and but I’m using lang en.GB as my desktop.

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB
LC_ADDRESS=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=sv_SE.UTF-8

and my keyboard

Setting verbose level to 10
WARNING: Running setxkbmap against an Xwayland server
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     se
variant:    nodeadkeys
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+se(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)
geometry:   pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc+se(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)" };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"     };
};
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Thank you for sharing the details, we will be working on the issue

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Hello @DmitriiV
As far as I understand, here is a summary of the situation:

  • in 8.3.0, the bug was introduced,
  • in 8.3.1 a quick fix was done : now, it is the default keyboard language that is used, not the one configured for a text area, and when copying a slide from one pptx to another, spell checking info are lost & replaced by default keyboard language.

Am I right ?

Thanks for your answer.

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@arcqus Actually, the spellchecking issue that you reported is a different one, not the one that was discussed with other users on the thread, it will be handled separately, during the analysis it turned out to be two unrelated problems

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As for the issue on Linux, we are going to implement Spelling language detection feature for Linux-based app in one of the next releases. This should fix the issue, I will share as soon as there is news