Did Steam just add a spell checker for Chat?

[Chris]

My friends don't have this but I do. Perhaps just a bug because I used the Chat in Chrome prior to this?

My native language is Swedish which adds a red line below all the words but using English words has no effect.

[Spawn of Totoro]

In the beta client, yes.

I suggest posting in https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/ if you have any issues with the beta client or it's new features.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

There's a spell check?

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

There's a spell check?

In the Beta Client, yes.

[Dowlphwin]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

There's a spell check?

In the Beta Client, yes.

It's apparently in the 'officially not beta' client now. If it cannot be turned off, I would not be surprised, but it should be. Especially since it seems to just assume a language I am not typing in. And I don't need a spell check anyway.

[Baryonyx]

I have noticed this too, I am german and spellcheck language is german too, so everything I write in english has red line, really irritating.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by Dowlphwin:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

In the Beta Client, yes.

It's apparently in the 'officially not beta' client now. If it cannot be turned off, I would not be surprised, but it should be. Especially since it seems to just assume a language I am not typing in. And I don't need a spell check anyway.

It can be disabled by following these steps https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1779388024826287713/

[Unaimed Player]

This is so stupid. It is on the same level of stupidity win10's spell-check is. Why is it allways just one language that it is checking for?
It should always be atleast an spell-check for English + the system's language. Almost everyone is using international forums and websides and chats and stuff and yet: "Nope, we only spell-check for the system's language."
Why is Opera the only company that is getting this right?

[Wida]

Is the dictionary in English or American? Or can you choose. I used to have the beta client but got tired of the daily downloads.

[Dowlphwin]

Originally posted by 7itr0n3ng5mäck:

This is so stupid. It is on the same level of stupidity win10's spell-check is. Why is it allways just one language that it is checking for?
It should always be atleast an spell-check for English + the system's language. Almost everyone is using international forums and websides and chats and stuff and yet: "Nope, we only spell-check for the system's language."
Why is Opera the only company that is getting this right?

- Opera has always been a smart browser, especially usability-wise, but I have stopped using it when they sold out and dumped their excellently compatible Presto engine for Chromium, further supporting the Google crusade.
- Many software devs make the mistake of checking for system locale instead of system language. In an extreme case, there was that one Sega Mickeymouse game that was HARDCODED to run in German as long as I have set German locale on my ENGLISH-LANGUAGE Windows 7.

[Aahzmandias]

Originally posted by Dowlphwin:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

In the Beta Client, yes.

It's apparently in the 'officially not beta' client now. If it cannot be turned off, I would not be surprised, but it should be. Especially since it seems to just assume a language I am not typing in. And I don't need a spell check anyway.

Of course. These "genius" devs asumed that I use the spellchecker for the language of the country I live in, not the language I have actually CHOSEN for the client.

You have to be pretty dumb to do such a thing, you know?

Now I have red underlined text all the time, making the spellcheccker an annoyance and not a help at all.