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      Currently, the feature only supports English dictionary. It would be nice if other languages can be supported as well.

            [AI-851] Support other languages in the Did You Mean feature

            BillA added a comment -

            Hi everyone. Thanks for commenting and voting on this feature. We plan to remove the "did you mean" feature in Confluence 5.2 because we found the usage and value to be relatively low and didn't warrant the performance impact that it caused. Since we're not investing in "did you mean" we don't plan to support additional languages for this. Therefore we're closing this ticket.

            BillA added a comment - Hi everyone. Thanks for commenting and voting on this feature. We plan to remove the "did you mean" feature in Confluence 5.2 because we found the usage and value to be relatively low and didn't warrant the performance impact that it caused. Since we're not investing in "did you mean" we don't plan to support additional languages for this. Therefore we're closing this ticket.

            You got my vote too. Any news in the last months?

            Jan Walbaum added a comment - You got my vote too. Any news in the last months?

            Here is another vote for other languages, please consider implementing this.

            Francisco Villar Romasanta added a comment - Here is another vote for other languages, please consider implementing this.

            Any more progress on this almost 3 year old request?

            Was surprised to find out Confluence had such poor support for other languages - even something as seemingly simple as English (US).

            Besjon Alivandi added a comment - Any more progress on this almost 3 year old request? Was surprised to find out Confluence had such poor support for other languages - even something as seemingly simple as English (US).

            Justine: I have been actively investigating this for some time. There are lots of little wrinkles that needs to be sorted out before we can roll something like that out. I have spoken to the TAC team about this possibility, I have also looked at prices to source dictionaries from other vendors. I have no timeline at the moment but I hope that we can support more than English in the Did you mean feature reasonably soon.

            Daniel (Inactive) added a comment - Justine: I have been actively investigating this for some time. There are lots of little wrinkles that needs to be sorted out before we can roll something like that out. I have spoken to the TAC team about this possibility, I have also looked at prices to source dictionaries from other vendors. I have no timeline at the moment but I hope that we can support more than English in the Did you mean feature reasonably soon.

            Atlassian -
            Would it be possible to include the Did You Mean database in translations.atlassian.com (TAC)? Or to make an equivalent site as TAC to do this? If we could crowd-source the language variants on TAC or elsewhere this could be completed rather quickly or as an organic community-driven effort that will improve over time.

            Or, as an alternative, would it be possible to allow users to define a local XML file where administrators could define their own choice of Did You Mean words? I bet there's a BSD-licensed spell-checker (for English US at least) that has a pretty healthy list of words to start from...

            Justin Clarke added a comment - Atlassian - Would it be possible to include the Did You Mean database in translations.atlassian.com (TAC)? Or to make an equivalent site as TAC to do this? If we could crowd-source the language variants on TAC or elsewhere this could be completed rather quickly or as an organic community-driven effort that will improve over time. Or, as an alternative, would it be possible to allow users to define a local XML file where administrators could define their own choice of Did You Mean words? I bet there's a BSD-licensed spell-checker (for English US at least) that has a pretty healthy list of words to start from...

            Antonio Parolini added a comment - - edited

            We need this in french. "Did you mean" for other languages would greatly increase Confluence adoption in Europe.

            Antonio Parolini added a comment - - edited We need this in french. "Did you mean" for other languages would greatly increase Confluence adoption in Europe.

            Jason: The dictionary for 'did you mean' consists of two parts the first part is a bundled dictionary the second part is words from your content. The bundled list is not part of the language packs at present so you can not hack it.

            Kevin: "Did you mean" is indexed, it is a separate index so it is not part of the main search index, but it is driven entirely out of the search engine in Confluence.

            Daniel (Inactive) added a comment - Jason: The dictionary for 'did you mean' consists of two parts the first part is a bundled dictionary the second part is words from your content. The bundled list is not part of the language packs at present so you can not hack it. Kevin: "Did you mean" is indexed, it is a separate index so it is not part of the main search index, but it is driven entirely out of the search engine in Confluence.

            Yes, US English and other languages would be bueno. "Did you mean" would be much more useful if it was indexed. Thanks.

            Kevin Parker added a comment - Yes, US English and other languages would be bueno. "Did you mean" would be much more useful if it was indexed. Thanks.

            I would think it wouldn't be so hard to support other English dialects also at least, no?

            Also, what would happen if I hacked the UK language pack and changed key terms to US variants? Would "Did You Mean" sort of operate acceptably?

            Jason Kabel added a comment - I would think it wouldn't be so hard to support other English dialects also at least, no? Also, what would happen if I hacked the UK language pack and changed key terms to US variants? Would "Did You Mean" sort of operate acceptably?

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