Solution found to disable spellchecking.

[MugShot]

Find

C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Local\Steam\htmlcache\UserPrefs.json

Open the file "UserPrefs.json" with a texteditor and

search inside the file for: "dictionaries":["de"]

change it to "dictionaries":[""]

remove the "xx" letters for your language and save the file.

restart steam

done

[MugShot]

Maybe it is a MAC feature.

Here on the PC it has the values i did set.

.....,"spellcheck":{"dictionaries":[""],"dictionary":""}}

why should it be overwritten if the filename is "UserPrefs.json"?

0. Close Steam
1. Make a copy of the file and delete the file.
2. Start Steam and look if it gets created. (If not, then restore your backup file)
3. Close Steam
4. Edit the file and look if it is working again.

[MacCekko]

@MugShot

Thank you for your answer. You are correctly assuming that I was in the macOS environment because of my nickname, but in fact I am actually playing every game on my iMac, yes, but within Windows 10 environment, so I am actually using Steam Client App in Windows 10 at 64-bit.

Moreover, I actually am without spellchecking active since THIS WAY it has become the only choice of some usefulness. Should I insert any value and saving the json file, Steam will always change it back to "it" although I am using the OS and Steam Client App themselves in english. This behaviour is very odd!
Anyway, thanks for your help.

[MugShot]

Open your friends list (They added a button to disable/enable spellchecking)

0. Click the wheel on the upper right. (Settings menu)
1. Look under "Chat"
2. Disable spellcheck in chat message entry (i have set it to "off")

Opprinnelig skrevet av MacCekko:

Hmmm, since a few days ago, this wonderful trick doesn't seem to be working anymore! The .json file keeps endlessly to be edited automatically from Steam app itself. Even if I set it to be "read only", I keep getting every single english word underlined in red. What a moronic setting did devs do, at Steam?!

[MacCekko]

Yes, thank you. I did that last night (after writing in these discussions threads), although it's absurd to have to renounce to have a spellchecking system active BECAUSE of uncomprehensible choices made by Steam client devs... Thanks a lot for your help. anyway.

[MacCekko]

I have changed my PC (I bought a new one, finally quite a powerful gaming computer indeed, and consequently have left my iMac for other purposes other than gaming, at last!).
So I installed Steam App from scratch. I have therefore peaked into the mentioned .json preferences, and have found that the language for US English, must be written with capital letters, as from the following example: "en-US"). I have added italian as "it" - "spellcheck":{"dictionaries":["en-US","it"] -, saved, and relaunched Steam.
Seems it's working good. Now the system corrects my spelling both in english AND in italian.
Just wanted to say that.

[van Grunz]

I never understood why certain programs have spell checking installed, anyway. I'm able to check myself for correct typing.

[ʙ ʀ 4 ɪ ɴ ᴍ ɪ ɴ 🅴 ʀ]

Opprinnelig skrevet av MacCekko:

I have changed my PC (I bought a new one, finally quite a powerful gaming computer indeed, and consequently have left my iMac for other purposes other than gaming, at last!).
So I installed Steam App from scratch. I have therefore peaked into the mentioned .json preferences, and have found that the language for US English, must be written with capital letters, as from the following example: "en-US"). I have added Italian as "it" - "spellcheck":{"dictionaries":["en-US","it"] -, saved, and relaunched Steam.
Seems it's working good. Now the system corrects my spelling both in English AND in Italian.
Just wanted to say that.

Grazie, just tried it out and can confirm it works flawlessly. Got now working spell checking for 2 languages. Edited it to:

"spellcheck":{"dictionaries":["en-US","de"]

Valve should really add some check boxes into the settings. Can't be that big of a deal.

[Blu]

Opprinnelig skrevet av monktk:

Thank you! I'd been getting a bit annoyed at correctly spelled, yet uncommon words such as "hotfixed" getting that ugly red squiggle under them.

There's no excuse for Steam implementing this without also implementing a menu option to disable it, but at least there's a workaround. Thanks for doing for us what Steam didn't bother to.

You could just right click then add to dictionary. Won't come back for that word again.

[van Grunz]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Blu:

You could just right click then add to dictionary. Won't come back for that word again.

Yeah, doin' it for every (!) word that "spell checking" doesn't recognize? Honestly?

That's a bunch of useless work.

Not to tell to do it for every (!) word other than english.

Please go on, nothing to see here..

[Edaryion]

Thank you, it was stuck in German for me as well.

[Ville22]

:yay:

[Dark.Shingo]

Thank you!

[Kingdark]

I wanted to confirm that you can indeed have multiple languages active, but you have to use the right format. en-US and not en-us for example. Though, for dutch, just 'nl' is sufficient it seems. Very convenient and I'm glad I finally fixed this. Though, I think steam should have a native option for this, because I wonder, if the client gets updated, if you have to redo this every time?

[kris.aalst]

No an update won't reset these settings but a complete reinstall will.

Yeah, the language code has to be exact, including caps. It seems the first part is always in lowercase and the second part is always in caps. Here's a list: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_standards/ms-oe376/6c085406-a698-4e12-9d4d-c3b0ee3dbc4a