Adding a Dictionary for the Hunspell Checker

To add a new spelling dictionary to Oxygen or to replace an existing one you should follow these steps:

  1. Download the archive with the files of your language dictionary.
    A dictionary has two files with the same name and different extensions: a file with .dic extension and a file with .aff extension.
  2. Copy the .aff and .dic files to the spell subfolder (.spell subfolder on Linux and Mac OS X) of the Oxygen preferences folder only if it is a new dictionary (it is not available as built-in dictionary in Oxygen). The Oxygen preferences folder is [APPLICATION-DATA-FOLDER]/com.oxygenxml, where [APPLICATION-DATA-FOLDER] is:
    • C:\Documents and Settings\[LOGIN-USER-NAME]\Application Data on Windows XP
    • C:\Users\[LOGIN-USER-NAME]\AppData\Roaming on Windows Vista
    • [USER-HOME-FOLDER]/Library/Preferences on Mac OS X
    • [USER-HOME-FOLDER] on Linux
  3. Copy the .aff and .dic files into the folder [Oxygen-install-folder]/dicts only if it is an existing dictionary.
  4. Restart the application after copying the dictionary files.