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Expression Web 4 will only spellcheck in American English and not British English by Finn Skovgaard

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Type: Bug
ID: 717375
Opened: 1/7/2012 8:37:42 AM
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This issue has already been described in https://connect.microsoft.com/Expression/feedback/details/667281/expression-web-4-will-only-spellcheck-in-american-english-and-not-british-english#tabs but it has been closed although the bug has not been solved.

So I am reopening a new incident.

The bug is in Expression Web 4.0.1303.0 SP2 running on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

The language on all the web pages is set to British English:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">
(can be edited manually or by right-clicking, Page Properties, Language)

FrontPage correctly spell checked these British English pages. Expression Web 4 will only spell check American English even when pages are marked as British English and it incorrectly marks correctly spelled British English as spelling errors, wanting to enforce American English. Examples or correctly spelled UK English marked as incorrect: fulfil, rumour, practise, metre.

This makes the spelling check almost useless. UK English spell checking works correctly in MS Office (Word, Excel). I have a Danish language pack installed.

Could we please have this fixed. It is most annoying and a major step back from FrontPage.
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Web

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Web 4 SP2 (4.0.1303.0)

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Bug

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Open web streetwise-france.com and run a spell check on any page. Correctly spelled UK English is marked as incorrect, with suggestions being American English.
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Posted by Microsoft on 1/30/2013 at 4:06 PM
We recently announced that we are discontinuing development of Expression Web. You can read the full announcement on our community page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/expression. Because this product is no longer in development, we are closing all outstanding bugs.
Posted by gilbert18 on 1/12/2013 at 8:17 PM
Further to my previous comment. If I open Expression Web in a new account, the Australian dictionaries are present in the custom dictionaries. They disappear, when I close and reopen Expression Web. I checked, and it is the same with the version of Expression Web on my work machine. It may be too late, but if someone with similar problems could check this, it might help.
Posted by gilbert18 on 1/12/2013 at 5:19 PM
I installed the free version on my laptop (win7), on which Expression Web had never been installed. The Australian English spell check worked. However, the next time I opened Expression Web it did not work. The English variant dictionaries had disappeared from the custom dictionaries, which I have noticed is a symptom of the problem. I uninstalled and reinstalled Expression Web without success.
Posted by Lori Dirks on 1/9/2013 at 10:24 AM
We recently announced that we are discontinuing development of Expression Web and have released a free version of the product. Our detailed announcement is posted on the Expression Community home page, http://expression.microsoft.com.

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having issues with regional English spellcheck. We have not been able to replicate the issue. I would suggest that you uninstall Expression Web and download and install the more recent Expression Web (Free Version), http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00e6f791-6450-4894-9b3a-2f5b58617a38, to see if that helps resolve the issue. The free version includes all of the functionality included in Expression Web 4 SP2, as well as a few additional small bug fixes.

Thanks,
Lori Dirks
Posted by richardsr on 8/2/2012 at 6:59 AM
I'd like to add my voice to this one. Expression Web deserves to be taken seriously, just as Microsoft Word is. Word has excellent support for spell checking in various language variations, including British English. Microsoft should take professionally-crafted web pages as seriously as they do professionally-crafted print media.
Posted by gilbert18 on 4/8/2012 at 4:26 AM
There is no reaction from Microsoft because we are dealing with a machine. There will be a threshold, so many thousand complaints, and then a switch will be thrown. An automated boot will kick someone in the bottom, and then something may happen.
Posted by Finn Skovgaard on 4/5/2012 at 7:47 AM
In addition to what gilbert18 said, let me add that UK or other regional English spellcheck works in Word 2010 and Outlook 2010. It is only Expression Web that has lost the identification of a regional version of English.

Why is there not the slightest reaction from Microsoft? This is a product meant for professionals who need to get work done, and the spelling check is useless.
Posted by Crustyfur on 3/27/2012 at 2:39 PM
It's bust for me too (Expression Web 4.0.1303.0.SP2)

It's MORE than EXTREMELY annoying...

HARRUMPH!
Posted by gilbert18 on 3/22/2012 at 12:29 AM
I have the same problem with Australian English. Works with MS Word, but not Expression Web 4. It broke when I upgraded to version 4, and I have not found a fix. From other postings, the problem has been around for a year or so. Microsoft know about it, but they have not fixed it.
Posted by Finn Skovgaard on 3/8/2012 at 4:38 PM
Microsoft, are you listening? Expression Web doesn't pick up other types of EN in the html than US English. It's very annoying to have correctly spelled words highlighted as incorrectly spelled all the time. It renders the whole idea of having a spell checker pointless. This was not a problem in FrontPage 2000.
Posted by G4llovidian on 1/21/2012 at 7:32 AM
It is extremely annoying.
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