Selecting the spell check option is a good practice to ensure that the translated content is of high quality. Spell check is supported in Microsoft Office and Hunspell.
To enable or disable spell check go to Preferences and then:
Click Spellchecker.
The Translation Preferences for Spellchecker options appear. If this is a new project, the default, Enable Spell Checking, is enabled.
Select or deselect Enable Spell Checking.
If Check for spelling errors as you type is selected, choose one of the following:
Microsoft Office
Note:
Microsoft Office must be installed on your computer.
Hunspell
Note:
Hunspell dictionaries are available for the following languages. Any of these languages can be installed by going to Help > Wordfast 4 Update, choosing the required language JAR and clicking Update.
Table 1.
Language
Shortcode
Language
Shortcode
Arabic
AR
Korean (South Korea)
KO-KR
Basque (Basque)
EU-ES
Latvian (Latvia)
LV-LV
Bosnian (Bosnia)
BS-BA
Lithuanian (Lithuania)
LT-LT
Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
BG-BG
Norwegian (Bokmål Norway)
NB-NO
Catalan (Catalan)
CA-ES
Norwegian (Nynorsk Norway)
NN-NO
Croatian (Croatia)
HR-HR
Polish (Poland)
PL-PL
Czech (Czech Republic)
CS-CZ
Portuguese (Brazil)
PT-BR
Danish (Denmark)
DA-DK
Portuguese (Portugal)
PT-PT
NL-NL
Romanian (Romania)
RO-RO
English (Canada)
EN-CA
Russian (Russia)
RU-RU
English (United Kingdom)
EN-GB
Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom)
GD-GB
English (United States)
EN-US
Serbian (Serbia)
SR-RS
Estonian (Estonia)
ET-EE
Slovak (Slovakia)
SK-SK
Farsi (Iran)
FA-IR
Slovenian (Slovenia)
SL-SI
Finnish (Finland)
FI-FI
Spanish (Mexico)
ES-MX
French (Canada)
FR-CA
Spanish (Spain)
ES-ES
French (France)
FR-FR
Swedish (Sweden)
SV-SE
Galician (Spain)
GL-ES
Swahili (Kenya)
SW-KE
German (Germany)
DE-DE
Tagalog (Philippines)
TL-PH
Greek (Greece)
EL-GR
Thai (Thailand)
TH-TH
Hebrew (Israel)
HB-IL
Turkish (Turkey)
TR-TR
Hindi (India)
HI-IN
Ukrainian (Ukraine)
UK-UA
Hungarian (Hungary)
HU-HU
Urdu
UR
Italian (Italy)
IT-IT
Vietnamese (Vietnam)
VI-VN
Irish (Ireland)
GA-IE
Welsh (United Kingdom)
CY-GB
Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
KK-KZ
Zulu (South Africa)
ZU-ZA
Click OK to save the settings.
Note:
If spell checking is disabled, all spelling preferences are cleared. To select spelling preferences, select Enable Spell Checking.