Spell checking for QtWebEngine

[beastie1]

Is Hunspell still usable? It used to be in the past. But I tried both the 1.0.03 release (on Windows and FreeBSD) as well as MASTER (on FreeBSD) and Hunspell is not doing anything.

I have Browser/EnableSpellCheck set as Yes and if I right-click a <textarea> element and check out the Dictionary submenu, I can see it successfully selects whatever I write in Browser/SpellCheckDictionary. But I can't change the dictionary from there, I can't tick the Check Spelling checkbox and Hunspell certainly doesn't do any spell checking.

[Emdek]

@beastie1, which backend? QtWebEngine doesn't use normal dictionaries, instead it uses proprietary format created by Google.
Please check if any dictionaries are listed in about:addons#dictionaries.

[beastie1]

It's on WebEngine. I presume these are bdic files such as here: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third_party/hunspell_dictionaries/ Can these be used with Otter? about:addons#dictionaries has a list of the classic Hunspell dictionaries that I manually installed and that worked with WebKit: American English (United States) English (New Zealand) English (Ireland) etc.

[Emdek]

@beastie1, I'm not sure, I haven't investigated these much since there is no way (AFAIK) to convert normal dictionaries (used elsewhere, not just QtWebKit, and also the only ones supported by Hunspell) using Qt…
I can take a look at these, but that will complicate things even more (since official format is already cumbersome, with two files per dictionary)… And hard to communicate it to users, that they need to somehow get another version of dictionary (unless some tool to convert them is already available).