tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544609315733972726.post-14695076596134521152008-03-04T02:39:00.000-07:002008-03-04T02:39:00.000-07:00OOo indeed uses language detection and it reuses an open source library for that (libtextcat). The problem with doing this automatically is that this would kill performance (and does not work perfectly anyway). So the approach to use language guessing only on demand was taken. If you open the context menu of the status bar control, language guessing is done and the found language is the first proposal in the menu.<BR/><BR/>Wrt. dictionaries: the problem with installation will be solved in 3.0 as dictionaries then will be installed as extensions, the current wizard will be replaced.Mathias Bauernoreply@blogger.com