spelling errors showing up in Flex

[Dawut G]

I have a Turkmen field, with a Turkmen dictionary checking for spelling errors, and an English translation field, with an English dictionary doing the same. Occasionally I type English in the Turkmen field by mistake. If I then replace it with Turkmen (whether pasted in or typed) Flex seems to think it's English and underlines all the words as misspelt. The workaround is to insert a new example, then copy and paste everything across, remembering to stick to the correct languages. But you have to retype the Turkmen, otherwise the 'Englishness' of the field remains. Is this a bug?

David

[Beth-docs Bryson]

One tip for detecting when this has happened:  If you use the Styles (Format/Styles/Normal style/font) to set each writing system to display in a different color, then when you type a word, you will quickly know what Writing System FLEx believes that it is in, and you can make adjustments right away.

Regarding writing systems in a field, sometimes there is indeed a “stickiness”.  I’m not sure I would call it a bug, but there is a specificness about the behavior.  If you are pasting from a field that is already the WS you desire that text to be, that should come over with the paste operation.  (This is where I tend to see it:  I accidentally typed Spanish in the English field, and now I’m pasting into the Spanish field.  But the text had been labeled as English when I typed it in the wrong field, and it keeps “English” when I paste into the Spanish field.)

If you have the cursor in a field you are about to type in, you can look up at the Writing Systems combo menu in the Toolbar to see what WS FLEx thinks you are currently typing in.  And if it is on the wrong one, you can use that combo to change to the right one.  Then what you type ought to be in that WS.

Having the colors will be a quick way to see if that worked, or to notice if you have started typing in a different WS than you expected.

-Beth

On Apr 14, 2026, at 5:44 AM, Dawut G <daw...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a Turkmen field, with a Turkmen dictionary checking for spelling errors, and an English translation field, with an English dictionary doing the same. Occasionally I type English in the Turkmen field by mistake. If I then replace it with Turkmen (whether pasted in or typed) Flex seems to think it's English and underlines all the words as misspelt. The workaround is to insert a new example, then copy and paste everything across, remembering to stick to the correct languages. But you have to retype the Turkmen, otherwise the 'Englishness' of the field remains. Is this a bug?

David

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[Brent Brollier]

David,

Having different colors for the different languages your project work in is something that I find helpful. I recommend it. Are you able to "change" the language (highlight the text and choose the right language in the box indicated in this screenshot) for the text that you copy from an English field to a Turkmen field? It's probably simpler than re-typing the Turkmen.

Blessings,
Brent

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[Dave G]

That's helpful, thanks!

Here's an entry now:

I'll also use the dropdown box to change the language, if necessary.

David