Has anyone built a User Dictionary for Thai language?

i’m referring to when a word is broken between lines. since Thai language doesnt have spaces it makes it more difficult to manage like other languages and adobe doesnt have a supported dictionary to reference. i have the language selected - but it doesnt make a difference.

Hi Lyn,

Thai is one of 65 spell-checker languages already supplied within InDesign. When you use paragraph styles for controlling text (you do, don’t you?) you will find it under Paragraph Style Options > Advanced Character Formats > Language...

I’m building a script to fix word wrapping

Hi ​@LynxKx , Just to clarify, by word wrapping do you mean where words break when Hyphenate is enabled in Paragraph settings? If that’s the case the Language chosen in the Character panel determines where words hyphenate and break. With ExtendScript it would be the text’s appliedLanguage—this gets a selected text’s language. There can be multiple applied languages within a document:

$.writeln(app.activeDocument.selection[0].appliedLanguage.name)

Here the two columns have different languages applied and the texts break, hyphenate and spell check differently:

What’s wrong with current word wrap? What are you trying to fix?

I don’t handle much Thai but, if you’re using the World-Ready Composer, Thai line endings should be a solved issue and not require any fixes to word wrap. Just delivered a Thai project that passed post-formatting linguistic review with zero bad line endings. Furthermore, if you look in Edit → Preferences → Dictionary and look under Thai, I think you’ll find that Thai Hunspell dictionaries are already installed. I don’t know but I suspect that they are the same dictionaries located here: https://github.com/syafiqhadzir/hunspell-th. 

Kinsoku shori for Japanese (and Chinese) would most likely be best handled in an appropriate CJK locale - here are some instructions to install a Japanese locale with an English interface. Korean uses spaces, between words but there’s also a recurring Korean layout bug where it wraps in the middle of words. I wrote a script to search Korean text for lines not ending with spaces or punctuation, which I’d be happy to share with you if it would be helpful.

In Arabic, my default install of what we used to call the “Middle East Edition” features Arabic Hunspell dictionaries already installed, and no word wrapping issues. 

So: can you give us more detail regarding what you’re trying to achieve?