Czech Winsoft dictionary is broken: all lowercase words are marked as misspelled (CC2020)
The spellcheck of Czech text is not working correctly if you select Winsoft dictionary in all versions of CC2020: it marks all words starting with lower case letter as wrong and recommends capitalising ALL words. Unfortunately the Winsoft dictionary is the only option for Czech language as both Hunspell and Proximity are really bad.
1 Type Czech text
2 Set Winsoft dictionaries in InDesign preferences
3 Run spell checker
4 All words in lowercase will be marked as misspelled (each word is treated as if it stands at the beginning of a sentence)
Expected result: see CS6, Winsoft dictionaries work well in this version.
Filip Blazek
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Ivan Berka
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Exactly, I’m facing the same problem even now (December 2024):
In the current version of InDesign (20.0.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1) I have a problem with the "Check for non-capitalized sentences" function when working with English text.
When this feature is turned on, the spell checker incorrectly marks all words in a sentence that begin with a lower case letter as errors, even though they are correct in Czech typography. The tool suggests changing these words to start with a capital letter, which is not grammatically correct.
The language of the text is set to Czech, the dictionary set for spell checking is Winsoft.
This behavior makes it virtually impossible to use the spell checker when working with Czech text. The only solution is to disable this feature completely, but this means that InDesign no longer marks genuine errors when sentences should start with a capital letter.
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