Revert per room spell check language MSC
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# MSC3226: Per Room Spellcheck Language
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It is common for people on the Internet to talk in more than one language. English will probably be
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the most used one, but for many it is not their mother tongue and they will use the latter as well.
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Clients can offer spell checking functionality, but in order to provide helpful suggestions they need
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to know which language the user is currently writing in. When spell checking is available, the language
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can usually be selected e.g. via the right click menu, but it becomes tedious when one switches back and
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forth between two or more of them.
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This proposal aims at providing users with a way to set a language per room, so that switching between
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conversations held in different languages automatically switches to the appropriate dictionary.
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## Proposal
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Clients offering spell checking should default their dictionary to the system language. They should offer
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a way to change it and when the user sets a specific language, then they should store the language code
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as `m.input_language` account data for the room where it was set. Language codes must be
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[RFC3066](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3066) compliant.
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## Alternatives
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The language could be defined as a room property: a room administrator could set it once and then every
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member would get it for free. However, not everyone in a given room necessarily talks in the same language
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(or even language variant, e.g. en_US vs en_GB) and there would need to be a way for users to override the
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room property. This MSC could be used as a mechanism to do said override, if such a room property were ever
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defined. Adding a room property requires more work and thought, and can be done in another MSC. It is thus
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considered out of scope for this one.
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The feature can also work without actually adding it to the Matrix specification. There is indeed already
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one existing implementation (see [Unstable prefix](#unstable-prefix) below). Standardising the account data
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type though has the benefit that it is not client specific anymore, and the setting can be more easily reused
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by any number of clients.
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## Unstable prefix
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Fractal already successfully offers this proposed feature. It stores the language code under the
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`org.gnome.fractal.language` account data type. This was released on the stable channel as part of
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Fractal 4.4 on August 7th 2020.
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