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*I often write text in both English and Swedish. Firefox spell checking is wonderful in English, but a nuisance in Swedish. I would like for Firefox to look at the <html> tag and see if it includes lang="en" or lang="sv" or any other language, and automatically use the spell checker indicated in the lang attribute to the <html> tag. This would especially be useful to people who are not computer exports, and who do not know how to download dictionaries or install them or how to tell Firefox to select language for a certain textbox.
*I often write text in both English and Swedish. Firefox spell checking is wonderful in English, but a nuisance in Swedish. I would like for Firefox to look at the <html> tag and see if it includes lang="en" or lang="sv" or any other language, and automatically use the spell checker indicated in the lang attribute to the <html> tag. This would especially be useful to people who are not computer exports, and who do not know how to download dictionaries or install them or how to tell Firefox to select language for a certain textbox.


::If a person opens a web page with <html lang="xx"> where xx is a language for which no spellchecker is installed, the user should be asked if he wants to download a spellchecker for that language, and then automatically have it downloaded. All to make it easy for users who are not computer gurus./jpalme  
:::If a person opens a web page with <html lang="xx"> where xx is a language for which no spellchecker is installed, the user should be asked if he wants to download a spellchecker for that language, and then automatically have it downloaded. All to make it easy for users who are not computer gurus./jpalme  


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