Spell Checking in Publishing pages

Question

QST1: Anyone know how to turn off the spell checking when clicking publish on a publishing page? Tried disabling farm feature without effect.

QST2: Do you need the language pack installed for Norwegian spell check?

QST3: Can one change the dictionary language using client code, for example by combobox in the publishing page?

Answer 1

QST1: You can simulate this by setting language as in qst3 to a LCID which doesn't exist or is not installed. You will then get a message in dialogs saying the language is not installed. In most cases better than showing x spellcheck errors. This is for the automatic spell check that happens on checkin/publish, the spellcheck icon can be hidden by the usual Ribbon removal procedure,

QST2: Yes

QST3: Yes by doing something similar to this:

function changeSpellCheckLanguage(languageSelected) {
    if (languageSelected == "Norwegian") {
        SP.UI.Spellcheck.SpellChecker.currentLanguage = 1044;
    } 
}

to change initial default this js can be run after "spell" variable has been loaded.

function setDefaultSpellCheckLanguage(languageSelected) {
    if (languageSelected == "Norwegian") {
        spellcheck.defaultLanguage = 1044;
}

Answer 2

We have same issue with spell check in publishihng site... created MSDN support case and that was just a nightmare... After a long time trying to explain and show the issue, they came back with a workaround, which was to delete the content of the SP.UI.Spellcheck.js. This greyed out the spelling button in the Ribbon... I tried to explain how wrong this suggestion is, along with the fact that it does not fix the actual issue.

Hopefully this bug will get cleared up in a release.