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  1. Bug #303269
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 303269

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In , Zeniko (zeniko) wrote :

(In reply to comment #4)
> But it is my understanding that this nsEditorSpellCheck::InitSpellChecker() is
> called only once per browser instance?

nsEditorSpellCheck is no service and you get one instance per input/textarea element for which spell checking is possible. InitSpellChecker is thus called once per element and would thus be the appropriate place for figuring out the page's default language.

You should be able to start searching from aEditor->GetRootElement. Make sure to consider HTML's lang attribute and xml:lang (whichever is appropriate) and as a bonus it would be nice to also select not completely specified languages (e.g. select es-ES for lang="es").

(In reply to comment #2)
> but it'd be nice to have for those bilingual people out there.

Of which there are an awful lot on the English dominated Internet of a polyglot world. :)