Google Chrome Multilingual Spellcheck Feature In The Works
It’s common for most of us in India to use multiple languages. And that just created a whole new language – Hinglish. Similarly, millions use multiple languages simultaneously as they type.

However, spell check technologies have been limited, enabling just one language at a time. You could either switch to one language, or add words from the other language to your dictionary. Mobile devices, on the other hand, have been more adaptive in their learning of user response. Google Chrome might just change all of it.

According to a report in 9to5 google, “in Chrome dev version 45.0.2453.0 released yesterday, a ‘developer channel’ build of the browser with changes and features that are still in their early development stages and as such not yet ready to be downloaded by the masses, the ability to enable spellchecking in Chrome against multiple languages caught our eye in the official changelog for the release, particularly as its a feature the community has been begging for in frustrated Chromium issue tracker threads dating back to 2008 when the Google-centric browser was released.”

Since these are still developer builds, it will take some time for this feature to become a default feature in the Chrome browser. Also, the multilingual spellcheck function will be restricted to Windows and Linux.

The report adds, “Don’t get overly excited, though – even if the feature does make it to the stable, public release version of the browser, it’s going to take some more time, and there are some other caveats. In an email from Julius Alexander IV, the developer at Google spearheading this functionality’s completion, Alexander says that “only the UI portion of this feature is done for now,” so clicking the UI buttons in the right-click menu to switch between languages won’t actually change the language used by Chrome for spellchecking. He also added that there’s no plan for it to ever work on Mac OS X because Chrome on OS X uses the operating system’s system-wide spellchecking tool, not the one built natively into Chrome.”