Comments on: Use your own dictionary for spell checking in XMind

By: Frog_Ozzi

Frog_Ozzi — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:53:19 +0000

Well… I tried to make the spell checker to work with Russian dictionaries but with the same bad luck. The English spell checker does work with the notes text but it does it terribly slowly and loads CPU to full capacity. After re-visiting another note and coming back to the previous one, the checker starts checking again. It took over 7 min to check a note with 90 words text:-(

By: GSepa

GSepa — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:49:23 +0000

Hi,
how to change the default dictionnary ?

Thanks

By: Joost

Joost — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:40:50 +0000

I experience the same problems as Metsis. I am also not able to make the Dutch dictionairy the default one. Anybody got any solution for that?

By: Metsis

Metsis — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:33:18 +0000

Hello!

I have several dictionary related issues.

I’ve downloaded the Swedish dictionary, unzipped the file and added the dic (now with dict extension) file into Xmind preferences. However, all umlauted words are incorrect in the file (e.g. “f^r” instead of “för”, cf. German “für”). Changing the encoding to UTF-8 doesn’t help.

I haven’t removed the English dictionary (should I?), but I can’t find a way to make the Swedish the default one. If I add a word to a dictionary which one it is added? I suspect the default as I can’t find the word in the Swedish one. This means that my English dictionary will be filled with Swedish words, not good.

Are the dictionaries bound to a map? I.e. if I add words in a map to a dictionary and share this map, does the receiver have those words in his/her dictionary so that they are not flagged by the spell checking system?

Pointers appreciated.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:40:57 +0000

@rupert This should work. did you modify the download file name into .dict? Because this solution is reported by a user, which means it works for him. So could you please take another try.

By: rupert

rupert — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:32:04 +0000

It seems like it is only the english version that wants to work, I tried the french version with no luck

By: LN

LN — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:47:24 +0000

Re: P.
I had the same problem for Czech language. I had to rename (from .dic to .dict) and change encoding from cp 1250 (Windows platform) to utf8 (Linux). Perhaps it will help

By: P.

P. — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:50:50 +0000

I have tried it with the German version. Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with special characters.

All words with German Umlauts (“äöü”) are marked as incorrect without any suggestion for correction. This is even true for very basic words (i.e. “für” – German translation of “for”).

Maybe an encoding issue?
P.

By: ftr

ftr — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:26:16 +0000

This seems to work. You only have to change the file format from .dic to .dict

Thanks for the hint
ftr