How to add language to NSSpellChecker's available languages?

Question

Currently, a call to

println(NSSpellChecker.sharedSpellChecker().availableLanguages)

prints out this list of languages:

[en_GB, en, en_AU, en_CA, en_IN, da, de, es, fr, it, nl, nb, pt_BR, pt_PT, sv, tr, ru]

I need to work with 2 more, so I followed the answer here and successfully added these 2 languages to my mac's spell checker. So yes, I have now system wide spell checking in these to aditional languages. And they show in available spell check languages as well as show on following screenshot - first language Slovenčina is new (it's code is sk):

Unfortunatelly, NSSpellChecker seems to not have registered these new languages as they are not listed as available. List of available languages is unchanged, as shown above.

Is there a way to make NSSpellChecker work with these added languages?

Answer 1

It seems like the NSSpellChecker class has some bugs in it. There already was a discussion about a bug with custom NSSpellChecker servers back in 2008 (which was fixed few months later).

At the moment I suggest you to file a bugreport since your code is correct as the documentation and the compiler says.

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Update

There are lots of other bugs regarding the NSSpellChecker class, so it doesn't surprise me, that you just found another one.

• Automatic language detection
• Unexpected return value in countWordsInString:language:
• Crashing application due to NSSpellCheckerCheckString

Buggy NSSpellChecker it seems...