[F] Changing only one note’s language

[jd-develop]

Expected behaviour

I have some notes written in French (fr_FR), some in English (en_US), and some in Occitan (oc_FR). However, if I want to note something in one on my Occitan notes, then immediately after, in one of my English or French notes, I have to manually switch the language for spelling checks in Edit->Language.

It would be nice if it was possible to set a default language for every new note, and that you can change the language of each note individually.

Actual behaviour

Language is set globally, not individually for each note, and therefore you have to re-set the language option whenever you switch between notes.

Steps to reproduce

• Write a note in a certain language (for instance, your default selected language)
• Write a note in another language
• Switch between notes: spell checking is correct for the first note (because it is written in the default selected language), but not for the second

By the way, the “auto” language mode can not detect Occitan, and this is why I don’t use it.

Information about the application, settings and environment

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QOwnNotes Debug Information

General Info

Current Date: jeu. avr. 11 13:43:26 2024
Version: 24.4.0
Build date: Apr 2 2024
Build number: 1090
Platform: linux (xcb)
Operating System: Ubuntu 23.10
Build architecture: x86_64
Current architecture: x86_64
Release: Launchpad PPA
Qt Version (build): 5.15.10
Qt Version (runtime): 5.15.10
Portable mode: no
Settings path / key: /home/jddev/.config/PBE/QOwnNotes.conf
Application database path: /home/jddev/.local/share/PBE/QOwnNotes/QOwnNotes.sqlite
Application arguments: /usr/bin/QOwnNotes
Qt Debug: 0
Locale (system): fr_FR
Locale (interface): empty
Primary screen resolution: 1920x1080
Icon theme: breeze-dark-qownnotes
Notes in current note folder: 6
Calendar items: 0
Enabled scripts: 0
Database drivers: QSQLITE

Server Info

serverUrl: empty
appIsValid: no
notesPathExists: empty
connectionErrorMessage: empty

Spellchecking

Enabled: true
Selected language: fr_FR
Language codes: en_US, eo, fr, fr_BE, fr_CA, fr_CH, fr_FR, fr_LU, fr_MC, oc_FR
Language names: American English (United States), esperanto, français, français (Belgique), français canadien (Canada), français suisse (Suisse), français (France), français (Luxembourg), français (Monaco), oc_FR
Application dictionaries path: /home/jddev/.local/share/PBE/QOwnNotes/dicts

Note folders

currentNoteFolderId: 1

Note folder par défaut

id: 1
isCurrent: yes
activeTagId: -1
localPath: /home/jddev/Documents/Notes
remotePath: Notes
cloudConnectionId: 1
isShowSubfolders: yes
isUseGit: yes
allowDifferentNoteFileName: no
activeNoteSubFolder name: (there is sensitive data here)
database file: /home/jddev/Documents/Notes/notes.sqlite

Cloud connections

Cloud connection Par défaut

id: 1
isCurrent: yes
serverUrl: empty
username: empty
accountId: empty

Enabled scripts

Settings

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LastUpdateCheck (QDateTime): 2024-04-11T13:35:18.134
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System environment

HOME: /home/jddev
LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE: fr_FR:fr_CA:en_GB:en
LC_ADDRESS: fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION: fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT: fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY: fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_NAME: fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC: fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_PAPER: fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE: fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_TIME: fr_FR.UTF-8
LOGNAME: jddev
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USER: jddev
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: /run/user/1000
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QT_ACCESSIBILITY: 1
QTWEBENGINE_DICTIONARIES_PATH: /usr/share/hunspell-bdic/
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GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE_PID: 7004

[pbek]

Hm, I don't think this will happen anytime soon, since there is not even a persistent note database to store such settings and note files can change outside QOwnNotes...

[pbek]

In theory, you can find out the name of the action in the menu and call it with https://www.qownnotes.org/scripting/methods-and-objects.html#triggering-a-menu-action directly to change the language for a note.