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Installing British English localization?
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Whether I have removed it somehow or never installed it, I would like to have British English localisation and dictionary installed on my Mac. Where and how can I install this? The only tutorial I found by googling says to look in Optional Installs on the install DVD. I did, but it only lists languages besides English.
Am I doomed to reinstall the whole OS or what?
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - 
Whether I have removed it somehow or never installed it, I would like to have British English localisation and dictionary installed on my Mac. Where and how can I install this? The only tutorial I found by googling says to look in Optional Installs on the install DVD. I did, but it only lists languages besides English.
Am I doomed to reinstall the whole OS or what?
There really isn't any British English "localization" in the sense of menus/dialogues or Dictionary.app in British English. Are you just talking about the British English system wide spellchecking dictionary? So when in TextEdit you go to Edit > Spelling > Spelling > Dictionary, the list does not include British English? Is that the only one missing?
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Yeah the only difference would be the spelling dictionary (Dictionary.app is separate and includes both British and American words). It could be possible that you removed the British English files for things like keyboard layout, date formats etc (have a look in the International pref pane. Did you ever run an app that gets disk space back by removing other language files? I think it's called Monolingual.
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Apple does not provide a British English localization.
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Originally Posted by tom@bluesky.org
There really isn't any British English "localization" in the sense of menus/dialogues or Dictionary.app in British English. Are you just talking about the British English system wide spellchecking dictionary? So when in TextEdit you go to Edit > Spelling > Spelling > Dictionary, the list does not include British English? Is that the only one missing?
That's the one I want. And there is not even a menu there.
Any ideas on how to get it back?
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
That's the one I want. And there is not even a menu there.
Any ideas on how to get it back?
Sounds pretty messed up if no Dictionary Menu in TextEdit. Best to reinstall perhaps.
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Nivag had the solution, replace the Dictionary application with one from an international install. Whoddathunkit? 
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
Nivag had the solution, replace the Dictionary application with one from an international install. Whoddathunkit?
I'm curious what you are talking about. Do you mean Dictionary.app? It has nothing to do with spell checking. What do you mean by "international install"? All OS X installs are the same as regards spell checking. Thanks for any further info!
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