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CP1.3: spelling-dictionaries lists WordCraft's own folder on macOS and Linux

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craft-proof now searches it there too (ported from storytold/craft-libs#31).

Co-Authored-By: Michał Marcin Brzuchalski <michal.brzuchalski@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FypgCX8LsYYE8fsj4byBm2
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# Installing spelling dictionaries
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-16 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-23 · **Change:** minor (ISO 8859-9 Turkish dictionaries are read, #3692; previously minor: Spanish: `es_ES`, `es_MX`, `es_419` and `es_UY` with their fallbacks, #3360, #3553; previously trivial: every Hunspell language shows (no dictionary), not only Polish and Portuguese, and Indonesian is listed, #3150; previously trivial: ISO 8859-1 dictionaries are read, #2824)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-16 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-01 · **Change:** trivial (WordCraft's own dictionaries folder is searched on macOS and Linux too, as on Windows, so a dictionary dropped there works without a setting; previously minor: ISO 8859-9 Turkish dictionaries are read, #3692; previously minor: Spanish: `es_ES`, `es_MX`, `es_419` and `es_UY` with their fallbacks, #3360, #3553; previously trivial: every Hunspell language shows (no dictionary), not only Polish and Portuguese, and Indonesian is listed, #3150; previously trivial: ISO 8859-1 dictionaries are read, #2824)
English spelling works out of the box. Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Czech, Italian, Croatian,
Turkish, Indonesian and Spanish spelling use a standard **Hunspell** dictionary (an `.aff` and a `.dic` file) that
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| System | Folders |
|---|---|
| Windows | `%LOCALAPPDATA%\WordCraft\dictionaries`, `%LOCALAPPDATA%\hunspell`, `%APPDATA%\WordCraft\dictionaries`, `%APPDATA%\hunspell`, LibreOffice's `share\extensions\dict-*` under `Program Files` (on any drive) |
| macOS | `~/Library/Spelling`, `/Library/Spelling`, `/opt/homebrew/share/hunspell`, `/usr/local/share/hunspell`, `/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/extensions/dict-*` |
| Linux and BSD | `~/.local/share/hunspell`, `/usr/share/hunspell`, `/usr/share/myspell`, `/usr/share/myspell/dicts`, `/usr/local/share/hunspell`, `/usr/local/share/myspell`, LibreOffice's `share/extensions/dict-*` under `/usr/lib/libreoffice` or `/opt/libreoffice` |
| macOS | `~/Library/Application Support/WordCraft/dictionaries`, `~/Library/Spelling`, `/Library/Spelling`, `/opt/homebrew/share/hunspell`, `/usr/local/share/hunspell`, `/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/extensions/dict-*` |
| Linux and BSD | `$XDG_DATA_HOME/wordcraft/dictionaries` (default `~/.local/share/wordcraft/dictionaries`), `~/.local/share/hunspell`, `/usr/share/hunspell`, `/usr/share/myspell`, `/usr/share/myspell/dicts`, `/usr/local/share/hunspell`, `/usr/local/share/myspell`, LibreOffice's `share/extensions/dict-*` under `/usr/lib/libreoffice` or `/opt/libreoffice` |
The web version can't read these folders, so these languages aren't spell-checked there.
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| 2026-10-22 | minor | Spanish (#3360, #3553): the file names for Spain, Mexico, Latin America and Uruguay and their fallbacks |
| 2026-10-22 | trivial | Italian, Croatian, Turkish, Russian, Czech and Indonesian without a dictionary now show **(no dictionary)** (or **(dictionary unreadable)**) too, as this page already said; before, only Polish and Portuguese did. Indonesian is listed with its file names (#3150) |
| 2026-11-01 | trivial | WordCraft's own `dictionaries` folder under the user's application data is searched on macOS (`~/Library/Application Support/WordCraft/dictionaries`) and Linux/BSD (`$XDG_DATA_HOME/wordcraft/dictionaries`) too, before the system folders, as it was on Windows (craft-proof; ported from storytold/craft-libs#31 by brzuchal) |
| 2026-10-23 | trivial | ISO 8859-9 (`SET ISO8859-9`) dictionaries are read, so an older Turkish `tr_TR` loads without converting it to UTF-8; the Turkish dictionary is read through the same size-capped reader and `SET` decoding as the others (#3692) |
| 2026-10-18 | trivial | ISO 8859-1 (`SET ISO8859-1`) dictionaries are read, so the original VERO `pt_BR` works without converting it to UTF-8 (#2824) |
| 2026-10-18 | minor | An installed dictionary that can't be read shows **(dictionary unreadable)** in the status bar, with the file and reason in its tooltip and in File › Options › Proofing (#2830) |