Greek and English spellcheck together

Historical text from HellasProject (2009–2014). It is not current advice or a present-day service.

Republication from Macalla.

The days when we corrected with Aspell are over… almost a year ago.

Recently I discovered the option to add our own spellcheckers to the OS. So I thought of joining two dictionaries, English and Greek. After a lot of work I got it working. Then it did not occur to me to Google first; I saw this trick had been found long ago. For those who did not know, here is how.

First download this file that contains our dictionary files: greek.dic and greek.aff. After unzipping, copy them to /username/Library/Spelling/. Next enable it from System Preferences->Language & Text, on the Text tab, in Spelling choose greek(Library). That is it. Now in all (Cocoa) apps on the system we can write Greek and English and correct them at the same time.