Hunspell galician don't work on InDesign 2026

Forum|Forum|2 months ago
November 8, 2025
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As far as I can see, you haven't been able to fix the problem yet.

I managed to get InDesign working with a little trick.

I renamed my files:

gl_ES.dic; gl_ES.aff and hyph_gl_ES.dic as

pt_BR.dic; pt_BR.aff and hyph_pt_BR.dic

Then I replaced the original Adobe files located in the pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese) folder with the renamed mine.

I'm never going to edit texts in Brazilian Portuguese, so I won't have any difficulty. That way I don't have to change the Info.plist file either. For InDesign I'm working in Brazilian Portuguese, when in reality I'm doing it in Galician.

Since I have the OS in Spanish, I tried changing the files "DisplayLanguageNames.es.txt" and "DisplayLanguageNames.es_ES.txt" by changing the string "$$$/Lilo/DisplayLanguageName/pt_BR=galego" but it still appears everywhere "Portuguese (Brazil)".

Would there be a way to change this?

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

What is Edit > Spelling > User Dictionary set to?

What is Edit > Preferences > Dictionary set to?

Could you post screenshots of these?

Mike Witherell

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Xoán G.Author

Participant

I can send you any screenshots you like, but I don't know what use that would be...

Notice: The OS is in Spanish, not English. (It doesn't exist in Galician unfortunately)

The first screenshot, Preferences: Indesign shows no anomaly.
The gl_ES folder is installed in .../LILO/.../Adobehunspellbundle.../Dictionaries

Second Screenshot: Galician text appears to be correct. All partitions are fine.
The unit is turned off. It is turned on and
Third screenshot: Indesign does not understand any hyphenation. Neither in Galician nor in any other language. (Screenshots 4 and 5)

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Maybe this will help:

Mike Witherell

How-to-Install-a-Language-Dictionary.pdf

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Xoán G.Author

Participant

Thans but I don't see that what you've put together adds anything new to what Adobe indicates for installing hunspell dictionaries. I'll briefly describe the problem:
Indesign works correctly with Galician hunspell on an Imac with an Intel processor.
It is installed on a new Mac Studio following the steps indicated by Abobe. The dictionary works but the hypenation doesn't.
Adobe Support was unable to solve the problem and transferred it to its engineers. It's not so trivial as to think that the files are bad or that it's due to a bad installation, or any of the things that anyone, even experts, can think of.

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