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I am using Gedit, on Windows, to write a Latex document.

I noticed that the windows installation of Gedit does not come with preinstalled dictionaries for spellchecking (I don't know why), so I found this post that explains how to download and install dictionaries for Gedit on Windows. Wonderful, specifically I need to download the Italian dictionary, so I went to this Github page and downloaded the folder. I then followed the procedure explained in the previously linked post: I went into the downloaded folder (the LibreOffice dictionaries), I then went into the it_IT folder and then I moved the files

  • it_IT.aff
  • it_IT.dic
  • hyph_it_IT.dic

to the newly created myspell/dicts folder inside my Gedit installation, as the linked post explains.

After all this procedure I can finally see, when I open Gedit, the option to select the Italian Language; I selected it, I activated spellchecking, and it works! Wonderful! But I then discovered a huge problem: for some reason the spellchecking marks as wrong not only the truly mispelled words, but also all the words with an accent in them; those who know Italian know that this language is positively full of accents, so this is quite the problem; and also, for some reasons, the spellchecking marks as wrong the word "di", Italian for the English "of"; very suspicious.. Everything else wroks perfectly tho.

What is going on? How can I get functional Italian spellchecking on Windows's Gedit?

Noumeno
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  • Try [this method](https://github.com/atom/spell-check/issues/161#issuecomment-336653098). – harrymc May 01 '21 at 13:42
  • I did not understand how to apply the linked method. Furthermore the link appears to be about Atom and not Gedit. However I trust your competence on this topic: can you provide a step by step answer to my problem? – Noumeno May 01 '21 at 16:34
  • Sorry, I don't use Gedit and I chose the wrong link. I believe the basic idea in the link is logical, that the spellchecking dictionary files are not in a format that supports accented characters (such as UTF-8) and so they are badly recognized. But you will need to check this idea on your installation. Or wait for some more knowledgeable person to reply. Sorry I can't help more. – harrymc May 01 '21 at 16:42

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