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Windows 11 Notepad Gets Spellcheck Feature

Caring1 said:
Lol, if words are spelt correctly in English, this will probably tell you it's wrong as it will be based on the mutilated English used by Americans.
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Yep. Even if you have it set to UK English
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If MS wants everyone to speak 'Murican then we will just have to speak 'Murican. :p
 
Microsoft windows 10 users sorry your os is too old to support spell check.
 
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Caring1 said:
Lol, if words are spelt correctly in English, this will probably tell you it's wrong as it will be based on the mutilated English used by Americans.
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It'll be based on your windows configured language selection and dictionary. Lets not borrow trouble where it doesn't even exist.

EDIT: I take it all back, see below.

windwhirl said:
Yep. Even if you have it set to UK English
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You are looking at keyboard layout sir. That's seperate from OS language IIRC.
 
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R-T-B said:
It'll be based on your windows configured language selection and dictionary. Lets not borrow trouble where it doesn't even exist.


You are looking at keyboard layout sir. That's seperate from OS language IIRC.
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Nope, I set my OS language to UK English and restarted just to make sure
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windwhirl said:
Nope, I set my OS language to UK English and restarted just to make sure
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That's shockingly bad, heh. Have to confess I just assumed they'd use that facility. MS really has some questionable design choices as of late.
 
R-T-B said:
That's shockingly bad, heh. Have to confess I just assumed they'd use that facility. MS really has some questionable design choices as of late.
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From what I see, it seems that Notepad either detects the language automatically, disregarding system settings, or just checks against whatever number of dictionaries it can call upon. "This is a prueba" not being detected as wrong makes me lean towards Notepad just running words against all available dictionaries, and as long as the word is in one of them, it won't highlight it.

English and Spanish for this test:

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On the other hand, it doesn't highlight either metre or meter, so I guess the word "realise/realize" was a one off error?

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matar said:
Microsoft windows 10 users sorry your os is too old to support spell check.
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Word in Windows 10 actually works just fine. English UK returns different results to English US.

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matar said:
windows 10 too old
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Same can be said about the failure that is Windows 11. Microsoft desperately needs a modern OS, namely Windows 12..
 
Next they'll turn into into a word processor, killing off the only use of the damned thing.
Imagine editing a script, config file, or whatever, and have the damned thing autocorrect your variables.
Spellcheck is a nice addition, but defaulting autocorrect to enabled is just plain stupid. This is not a smartphone IM app.

Y'all still on Windows should pray that MS remembers they have VSCode. Else the next notepad "update" will have intellisense strapped on (because they won't just settle for petty syntax highlights a la notepad++, gnome-text-editor), and your 100kb readme will take two hours to launch.
ARF said:
Microsoft desperately needs a modern OS, namely Windows 12.
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What makes a "modern OS," exactly?
 
windwhirl said:
From what I see, it seems that Notepad either detects the language automatically, disregarding system settings, or just checks against whatever number of dictionaries it can call upon. "This is a prueba" not being detected as wrong makes me lean towards Notepad just running words against all available dictionaries, and as long as the word is in one of them, it won't highlight it.

English and Spanish for this test:

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On the other hand, it doesn't highlight either metre or meter, so I guess the word "realise/realize" was a one off error?

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It's still an Insider's build, so give them feedback...
 
You can uninstall the Notepad app and use Notepad.exe in C:\Windows.

This is what I'm doing on IoT LTSC 2024.
 
Notepad is supposed to be

"AS is"
"Unedited"
"yup I noticed there is a mistake here in the code"

type of stuff.

Adding spellcheck into notepad destroy the whole purpose of it.
 
AGlezB said:
I knew it! They exist! :peace:

Joke aside, that makes you the exception to the rule and you're not alone, but if we count Notepad users as a percentage of the total Windows userbase and plot it in a pie chart you'd be a single line and the percentage would round to 0% up to 4 or 5 decimals.
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In some specific areas I'm definitely in the top 000.1%.
Eiji said:
You can uninstall the Notepad app and use Notepad.exe in C:\Windows.

This is what I'm doing on IoT LTSC 2024.
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I'll have to check, but I think my desktop shortcut leads to notepad.exe and it's the same as the app.
 
Shihab said:
What makes a "modern OS," exactly?
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DirectX 13. DirectStorage 2.0, automatic scaling as on smartphones with Android, 4K-friendly, detection of poor quality DisplayPort and HDMI cables, interface that is user friendly, and requires less clicks, aka is faster, not slower, i.e. requiring more clicks as in windows 11.
 
ARF said:
DirectX 13. DirectStorage 2.0
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There is an implicit assumption here that DX12 is not "modern," which I'd love to hear the rationale for.
(And I'd hardly call a yet-to-exist specification modern).

The rest is a nice wish list. Some are questions of implementation quality rather than existence (e.g. autoscaling), others are highly subjective. e.g. user friendliness. And I question equating it with modernity in the first place. See critique of flat design back when it was the symbol of modernity.

ARF said:
requires less clicks, aka is faster, not slower, i.e. requiring more clicks as in windows 11.
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Me thinks you're looking the wrong way there, mate. Reject modernity, embrace tradition!
 
64K said:
I stay perpetually disgusted with MS for many things over the decades but I'm curious why you think MS could ever become irrelevant? They are so deeply ingrained in the business world that there is no rooting them out. It's been tried before in 1998 and failed and they didn't have the stranglehold that they have today.
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Well the major risk I see for them is that they will lose their unique selling point.

Windows as an offline OS that can do a lot locally is going to be a perk in an online world. They're throwing that away for a lot of people and its not only a shame, it will not help them differentiate from any mobile OS sooner rather than later. And we all know, they're not going to survive as just 'a mobile OS'. They're far behind on that front, their app store is still barely a factor of importance for example, and if they move towards gatekeeping all the things you do on Windows while Apple et all are just now getting forced to open up... Its not a big step either to hook a phone to a dock and a screen and work on it. You're using cloud anyway, right. Where's Windows Phone? :)

I don't know I don't see the space where Windows still needs to exist at that point. It'll be more of a 'yet another cloud service' that offers a rich Office experience and whatnot. So maybe they can carve out a bit of productivity-oriented space there in the consumer market. And then what's next? The next generation of users, or the one after that, grows up without Windows. Its already happening, except now Windows still has a chance to stand out as something special. Heck, you could probably do all of the productivity stuff just as well in any browser based app like Google Docs or something other that can often be had for free. Windows is the only ticket MS really has to keep a strong brand presence. And what will that generation opt for when they run their business next? Its far away I admit, but their cloud business alone won't save them, I think.
 
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