Bizarre Spellcheck Issue

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Experiencing a very strange spellcheck issue. A user has auto-spellcheck setup and working fine. It suddenly stops working. User recieves the usual errors about being unable to determine or locate proper dictionary. I fix the problem and it runs fine for several days and then breaks. When I check the notes.ini, the spell_dir setting is correct, but the spell_lang setting has changed to 1. I know in R5 and R6 the correct setting is spell_lang = 1036. I fix it, but it will eventually change again. User says they aren’t doing anything in Notes other than e-mail and calendar.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any fix?

Thanks

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Subject: Bizarre Spellcheck Issue

My only thought on this:Is the user using their system clock to check the time in different time zones? If somehow that is triggering their PC to think they’re in a different international setting, it could be bing picked up by the Notes client. We had people screwing up their timestamp in Notes that way. They weren’t resetting the clock on their PC, just looking at the current time in a different time zone. Notes would keep the “new” setting until they exited Notes.

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Subject: Bizarre Spellcheck Issue

work-around:I cannot explain the cause, but …

you could use something like this to help the user reset it. Put it in a button. Put it in the PostOpen in his mailfile if you prefer.

Sub Click(Source As Button)

Dim session As New NotesSession

Call session.SetEnvironmentVar( "spell_lang", "1033", True )

End Sub

That’s assuming his language is 1033-English.

He can verify it with:

Sub Click(Source As Button)

Dim session As New NotesSession

Msgbox session.GetEnvironmentValue( "spell_lang", True )

End Sub