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Tips: English Spell Checking with non-English FP installations

Spell Checking with FP normally uses only the installed FP language. Changing the Web's language with FP Explorer doesn't resolve this! (This Tip has been submitted to us by Thomas - Thanks very much!)

If you want to spell check your Web in English and your installed FP version is non-English, you have a problem because FP does the spell checking only in the programs language.

SOLUTION: Edit the file FRONTPG.INI (located in your Windows directory) to change the line FrontPageLangID=0xLLLL to FrontPageLangID=0x0409 and save the file; LLLL is your language code, e.g. 0x0407 for German. You now changed the FrontPage Language ID to English and from now on the spell checker uses the English dictionary!

Common Language IDs

Chinese	0x0404
Czech	0x0405
Danish	0x0406
Dutch	0x0413
English	0x0409
Finnish	0x040B
French	0x040C
German	0x0407
Greek	0x0408
Hungarian	0x040E
Icelandic	0x040F
Italian	0x0410

Japanese	0x0411
Korean	0x0412
Norwegian	0x0414
Polish	0x0415
Portuguese	0x0416
Russian	0x0419
Serbo Croatian	0x041A
Slovak	0x041B
Spanish	0x040A
Swedish	0x041D
Turkish	0x041F

If you have Visual C++ take a look at the header-file WINNT.H where the language IDs (including sublanguage and primary language IDs) are listed and explained. Other compilers should provide a comparable header file.

NOTE: Changing the FrontPage Language ID might require additional files for spell checking that are not provided by FrontPage. This tip is provided "as is"! Other effects after changing FP Language ID as the described are unknown.