feature-request: Ability to set text language

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Create and modify Word documents with Python

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feature-request: Ability to set text language #700

Open butuzov opened 5 years ago

butuzov commented 5 years ago

I would like to ask

if it's possible to add the ability to set text language?

Something like

document.add_paragraph('Привіт Жорстокий Світ').langauge="Ukrainian"

It would help to effectively use spell checkers for text written not in English.

Update: As far as I understand its possible to do via Styles editing (in Word), but it's only allowed to ParagraphFormat + font settings in python-docx.

winkelband commented 4 years ago

For a temporary fix by altering the properties in an oxml element object to set the language in the text you may have a look into this answer on Stack Overflow.