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Word Spell Check 1.5 doesn't save last language used

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, xml
Domain
desktop, tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the language reset in Word Spell Check 1.5 and the OCR spell-check reset using the settings.xml entries LastTesseractSpellCheck and SpellCheckLanguage. Check whether es_PE is saved and restored as selected, and whether the plugin consults the name/noise list before asking about words. Done means both language selections persist and known words are skipped.

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Description

It keeps defaulting to English (United States) no matter what language I've previously selected. I'm using latest published beta and Word 2019. With previous version it was working fine.

Though, I don't know if its a problem with this plugin or if is a problem with SubtitleEdit because the OCR spell check language isn't saving either, I keep selecting es_PE and it keeps turning back to es_ANY. I have even edited manually the settings.xml file with this:

<LastTesseractSpellCheck>es_PE</LastTesseractSpellCheck>
<SpellCheckLanguage>es_PE</SpellCheckLanguage>

But it doesn't matter, it keeps defaulting to es_ANY.

Oh, and it seem that the plugin is not using the name/noise list because it keeps asking me about words that are already in the name list (because I added them when OCRing)

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