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Problem:
I routinely write emails in 3 different languages. They are all mixed: one email in English, another in German, and some in French. In some cases, I even write 2 different languages to the same person, depending on who else is or was involved in the thread, or depending on the subject.
Importance:
The problem arises for all users who speak several languages. E.g. they speak their local language with their friends, and English with international correspondents. In other words, this bug is important for all international communication (unless your native language happens to be English).
Non-solutions:
I cannot specify the language for each email. That costs too much time, and I'll rather ignore the spell-checker altogether.
Solution:
The only solution is to once - as a configuration - select a number of languages that I know how to write, and then to allow all words in these languages.
This is what Android keyboard does as well.
Out of scope:
If we can automatically detect the language that the user writes, that would be nice, but that would be another bug, an enhancement on top of this bug here.
Etiquette:
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These should be posted in bug 69687 instead, as they would be distracting here. Thanks for your understanding. This is an engineering implementation bug. But if you are waiting for this feature and want it to be implemented fast, please vote for this bug here.