Is there a way to get English spell checking results while using a different keyboard layout than English.

[agoodfellow123]

So I'm on VanillaOS (Gnome) and just installed fcitx5 via flatpak (and the required Gnome extension for it) Gnome apps work well while I have my Turkish key layout. All the spellchecking works in English while using Turkish key layout. However, any app that is not a Gnome app defaults me to English keyboard while being able to spell check. When I set the keyboard to Turkish, I get no English suggestions (or any suggestions in general)

[wengxt]

Hi, thank you for your interest in using fcitx.

Yes, the issue you're pointing out is known issue. I think it is separated into 2 different parts:

1. The spell check, is backed by enchant for all other languages, which in turn, is backed by hunspell aspell or whatever backend supported by enchant, however this enchant support is disabled in flatpak (not sure why, probably to simplify the build since enchant is not available in the kde's runtime sdk that fcitx use). There's always an english dict bundled within fcitx, so english is always available for spell check
2. However, the language to be used with spell check, is based on the language tag defined in xkeyboard-config, in this Turkish case, it's "tr".

That's why, the Turkish doesn't have any spell check data, however, it does have some emoji result if you search with "Turkish".

There is no easy way (via GUI - a.k.a configure) to make it use English as dict. However, if you do want to do that, you can try to locate the xdg data path for fcitx, a.k.a ~/.var/app/org.fcitx.Fcitx5/data/

Create following file at ~/.var/app/org.fcitx.Fcitx5/data/fcitx5/inputmethod/keyboard-tr.conf

(Name can be anything you want, LangCode=en is the key part, it will override the keyboard's addon's langauge tag)

[InputMethod]
Name=My Turkish
Icon=input-keyboard
LangCode=en
Addon=keyboard
Configurable=True
Label=tr

This will make it assume English as language for spell checking.

I could also look into build enchant support in flatpak version, which should give you Turkish spell check though might not be what you really want.

[wengxt]

I'm enabling enchant with flathub/org.fcitx.Fcitx5#47 if you're using stable, the update will be within ~1day.

If you use nightly master version, just upgrade.

Enchant support will bring the hunspell dict support. However, it still require you to install locale within flatpak.

For example, if you need some non system language, you will need to

flatpak config [--user] --set languages "lang1;lang2;lang3"

and then run flatpak update

For example if you want Turkish dict, you can run

flatpak config --user --set languages "tr"
flatpak update

You should see some locale installation.

However, this is enabling Turkish spell check when using Turkish layout, might not be English spell you want. If you want English with Turkish layout, see above ^

[agoodfellow123]

Thank you for the answer! Works perfectly.