Opera spell checking only allows selection of English (United States)

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Why would the other options be greyed out? Here, US English is deselected.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

Maybe because there isn't a dictionary for Australian English?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

I can confirm the issue and can also confirm that it works fine in Opera.

It looks like the dictionaries are compiled into Chrome. The source for en-AU is https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/hunspell_dictionaries/en-AU-8-0.bdic.

Opera doesn't seem to have that one I guess. Also, in resources/dictionaries.xml, it's not listed. Chrome doesn't use anything like that.

Also, if you disable opera://flags/#new-md-settings to get the old settings page, set the language to English (Australia) and restart, you'll see Opera changes it to English UK on you (which isn't in the list).

In short, I would guess it's just not supported by Opera.